Research on the transition from Old Church Slavonic in its Russian version to the Old Russian literary language in its embryonic stage

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We are aiming at researching the Old Russian literary language in its embryonic stage. For this purpose it is useful for us to investigate Old Church Slavonic in its Russian version. When copying Old Church Slavonic texts, early Russian men of letters sometimes deviated from the norms of Old Church Slavonic in favor of analogous forms drawn from their native speech. In this way Old Russian features were introduced into the orthography and grammatical system of the Old Church Slavonic originals.We gathered many examples of Old Russian features in the Arkhangel Gospel Book. The Arkhangel Gospel Book proved to have a rather large number of such examples as compared with Ostromir's Gospel Book. And the examples are found not only in the orthography and grammatical system but also in vocabulary.The examples demonstrate that the Arkhangel Gospel Book is not a literal facsimile of the original text but an Old Russian version composed on Old Church Slavonic models, and, accordingly, the Arkhangel Gospel Book must be considered to include an embryo of Old Russian literary language in it.