Philip Newton (pne) wrote in linguaphiles,
Philip Newton
pne
linguaphiles

Decyphering Cyrillic (Russian, or maybe OCS?)

I have a page-a-day calendar with parts of old maps.

The page for 20 August had a part of a plan of Moscow, and I'm curious what the text on the picture says (main photo page here) -- there's a title at the top and some of the gates are labelled, but the whole things is written in a curlicue way and seems to use abbreviation marks, so it's hard for me to decipher.

I'd appreciate it if you can help me. Unfortunately, when I scanned it in, a little bit of the top got cut off, which contained some diacritics which might be necessary -- mostly ~-shaped ones but also one that looked like )( and two that looked like the letter rams-horn ɤ.

Here's my attempt, with diacritics after the letter they seem to be above:

Ц~РСТВАЮЩИ ГРАД М~ОСКВА НА???\ ГОРОДЪ ВСТ)(? М~ОСКѠВСКИɤ ГД~РСТВɤ∝

Where ? is letters I couldn't identify and \ is an indescribable squiggle above.

Something about "Imperial city Moscow, something something, Muscovite state"?

As for the gates, I suppose 5 and 6 are Dmitriy's gate and Pyotr's gate, but the rest I can't even guess at.

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