Old Slavonic

He also composed his 1,895-page annotated translation of ‘Eugene Onegin,’ as well as an annotated translation of the Old Slavonic epic ‘The Song of Igor’s Campaign.’

In “Svyati,” a setting of Russian Orthodox liturgy sung in Old Slavonic, the foremost voice was that of Mr. Rath’s cello, sounding a wordless paean atop choral lines that rose and fell with pious sobriety.

It has been evolved from the ancient language by a natural and regular process, similar to that which has produced the Romance languages from the Latin, Reforms of Cora�s. or the Russian, Bulgarian and Servian from the old Slavonic.

But, as Gogol, the great Russian, used to say, quoting an old Slavonic proverb, "We must not blame the mirror if the face looks ugly."

He then entered the College at Lublin, and in 1829 he proceeded to the University of Wilno, where he gave his attention principally to the study of languages, especially of Old Slavonic, Russian, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic.