Russian cursive

It is typically referred to as (ру́сский) рукопи́сный шрифт (rússky) rukopísny shrift, "(Russian) handwritten font".

It is the handwritten form of the modern Russian Cyrillic script, used instead of the block letters seen in printed material.

In order[clarification needed], modern Cyrillic italic typefaces are based (in their lowercase part) mostly on the cursive shape of the letters.

For example, in the words волшебник, "magician" and домик, "little house" the combinations лш and ми are written identically.

There are examples of different words that become absolutely identical in their cursive form, e.g. мщу "I avenge" and лицу (dative of лицо "face").

Some words in Russian may pose a challenge due to the similarities between the letters Ш, Щ, И, Л, М in cursive.

Text written by a foreign student in Russian cursive. The text is called Встреча в Бразилии (meeting in Brazil).
A ukase written in the 17th-century Russian chancery cursive
18th-century Russian italic font, note unusual "square" minuscule в
The word Шиншилла (shinshilla), which means "Chinchilla". In red, a decomposition of the handwritten text showing the block letter equivalent.
The word Лишишь (lishish), which means "you deprived", or "it was deprived". In red, a decomposition of the handwritten text showing the block letter equivalent.
A signature of Fyodor Dostoevsky showing a stylized macron above the ⟨ т ⟩ in "Достоевскій"