Задание 3 Dialogue of cultures (1) ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 6 класс

Russian birch bark writings

One of the greatest archeological sensations of the 20th century was the discovery of birch bark documents in Novgorod in 1951. Later, more than 1,000 similar documents were discovered in Staraya Russa, Smolensk, Torzhok, Pskov, Tver, Moscow and Ryazan. Most documents are ordinary letters by different people. They tell us about everyday life in those times. They also show that many people in old Russia knew how to read and write. This discovery changed traditional ideas about the education and culture of Russians in the 11th–15th centuries. One of the most interesting birch bark documents is a kind of pupil’s “Activity Book”. It is a spelling lesson and some drawings made by a boy named Onfim. He was probably 6 or 7 at the time.