A master class on Slavic calligraphy and reading was held at the Regional Children's Librarytranslated

A master class on Slavic calligraphy and reading was held at the Kruchina Regional Children's Library for students of the Cossack class of the tenth school, as well as for ordinary readers. The master class was conducted by Priest Roman Nikitin, head of the department for work with youth of the Petropavlovsk and Kamchatka diocese.

The children immersed themselves in the history of world and Slavic writing, tried to write with fountain pens and wrote on a tsera (wax tablet), and were also able to learn to read Slavic from the 19th century Gospel.

“Who can tell me the name of the most famous schoolboy in Ancient Rus'? - says Father Roman. — The most famous and, apparently, a little absent-minded student was called Onfim.

He lived around the 13th century in Novgorod. We know his name because he himself signed it in birch bark letters - his educational “notebooks”. In total, archaeologists found 12 letters written in his handwriting, and several more pieces of birch bark with drawings - they are not called letters, because there is no text on them. In fact, this is his “school notebook”.

Why is Onfim called absent-minded? Because one day a schoolboy lost his notes. Historians even joke: this absent-mindedness has become real luck for science - that’s all...