S → С, D → Д, F → Ф, etc.). Letter names Until approximately the year 1900, mnemonic names inherited from Church Slavonic were used for the letters. They are given here in the pre-1918 orthography of the post-1708 civil alphabet. The Russian poet Alexander Pushkin wrote: "The [names of the] letters that make up the Slavonic alphabet don't represent a meaning at all. , , , , etc. are individual words, chosen just for their initial sound". However, since the names of the first few letters of the Slavonic alphabet seem to form readable text, attempts have been made to compose meaningful snippets of text from groups of consecutive letters for the rest of the alphabet. Here is one such attempt to "decode" the message: In this attempt only lines 1, 2 and 5 somewhat correspond to real meanings of the letters' names, while "translations" in other lines seem to be fabrications or fantasies. For example, "" ("rest" or "apartment") does not mean "the Universe", and "" does not have any meaning in Russian or other Slavic languages (there are no words of Slavic origin beginning with "f" at all). The last line contains only one translatable word – "" ("worm"), which, however, was not included in the "translation". See also Bulgarian alphabet Computer russification Cyrillic alphabets Cyrillic script Ukrainian Latin alphabet Greek alphabet Montenegrin alphabet List of Cyrillic digraphs and trigraphs Reforms of Russian orthography Romanization of Russian Russian Braille Russian cursive (handwritten letters) Russian manual alphabet Russian Morse code Russian orthography Russian phonology Scientific transliteration of Cyrillic Serbian Cyrillic alphabet Yoficator Notes References Bibliography Ivan G. Iliev. Kurze Geschichte des kyrillischen Alphabets. Plovdiv. 2015. Ivan G. Iliev. Short History of the Cyrillic Alphabet. Alphabet Cyrillic alphabets Alphabet de:Kyrillisches Alphabet#Russisch