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Vyaz (russian: вязь from , ;
cu, вѩзати, 'to bind, to tie') is a type of ancient decorative
Cyrillic script Calligraphy {{Cyrillic-alphabet-stub
Vyaz (russian: вязь from , ;
cu, вѩзати, 'to bind, to tie') is a type of ancient decorative Cyrillic
, bg, кирилица , mk, кирилица , russian: кириллица , sr, ћирилица, uk, кирилиця
, fam1 = Egyptian hieroglyphs
, fam2 = Proto-Sinaitic
, fam3 = Phoenician
, fam4 = G ...
lettering, in which letters are linked into a continuous ornament. It first appeared in South Slavic monuments in the 13th century, and was also used from the end of the 14th to the beginning of the 15th centuries in the East Slavic and Wallachian regions. Under the reign of Ivan the Terrible
Ivan IV Vasilyevich (russian: Ива́н Васи́льевич; 25 August 1530 – ), commonly known in English as Ivan the Terrible, was the grand prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and the first Tsar of all Russia from 1547 to 1584.
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, Vyaz developed considerably, but was later abandoned.
See also
*Serbian calligraphy Serbian calligraphy ( sr, краснопис/, /) is a form of calligraphy based on the Cyrillic script used to write the Serbian language. The most notable calligraphists are Zaharije Orfelin (1720–1785), Hristofor Žefarović (d. 1753), and Iv ...
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* Examples of the Russian VyazCyrillic script Calligraphy {{Cyrillic-alphabet-stub