Old East Slavic, Old Russian was a language used in 10th–15th centuries by East Slavs in the Kievan Rus' and states which evolved after the collapse of the Kievan Rus. Dialects of it were spoken, though not exclusively, in the area today occupied by Belarus, Northern Ukraine, parts of European Russia, and several eastern voivodships of Poland.
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“A puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odours of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out the still night—the first sigh of the East on my face. That I can never forget. It was impalpable and enslaving, like a charm, like a whispered promise of mysterious delight.... The mysterious East faced me, perfumed like a flower, silent like death, dark like a grave.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)