How to Translate Old Russian Handwritten Text

You can get your old handwritten text translated from English to Russian and vice versa. If you have a handwritten text, whether it is a manuscript or a letter or a book, we can translate the texts of your ancestors into the modern foreign language.
Manuscripts
Translation of ancient manuscripts: historic writings (records, annals, memorials)
Books
Translation of old books: history books, archives, textbooks, scientific & religious books
Letters
Translation of old handwritten letters: post mail cards, paper mails, personal letters

Russian to English Translation of Handwritten text

For centuries people were travelling between cities, countries, and continents. History was rewritten for hundreds of times. And to keep track of all true events and facts it is necessary to have the original document available and translated.
It is rather curious to know what was the life at that time and how everything happened from old manuscripts and letters or books. You can also know a lot of details about your ancestors from historic writings and papers.
Besides historic letters we also translate any other handwritten text - scans of papers with handwriting. You can send us the copy of the handwritten text in PDF, we will typeset the text in an editable format, translate it, and deliver the translated text in an editable format or PDF back to you.
Translation of Russian handwritten text to English language
Send Your Old Russian or handwritten text in PDF or JPG
What We Translate
Manuscripts
Ancient Manuscripts
Chronicles
Historic Writings
Records
Annals
Memorials
History Books
Archives
Text Books
Folklore (Legends)
Ancestry Books
Religious Books
Books
Letters
▪ Handwritten Letters
▪ Post Mail Letters
▪ Greeting Cards
▪ Paper Mails
▪ Personal Letters
Translated Samples
Some of the Old Russian and handwritten texts we translated
Archive record in Old Russian
Archive record in Old Russian
Archive Book with records
Archive Book with records
Handwritten letter in Old Russian
Handwritten Letter in Old Russian
Old Russian passport
Old Russian passport
Ancestry Book in Old Russian
Ancestry Book in Old Russian
Excerpt from Archive
Excerpt from Archive
Family History in Old Russian
Family History in Old Russian
Marriage Record
Marriage Record
How It Works
  • Submission
    You can submit your handwritten text in whatever format that suits you best and what is most convenient for you. You can scan your text and send us the scanned copy of your handwritten text either in JPG or PNG or PDF or in any other format that would be able to display the original text with crisp clarity. The precision of picture is absolutely necessary as in the case of old text written with ink the words or letters may be blurred over the years. So to distinguish every letter we have to see the text as it is, with all marks and scratches.
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  • Typesetting
    Upon submission of your handwritten text we shall convert the original text into editable text by typesetting or copying the old text into an editable format like MS Word where we can further translate it into English or Russian. Of course, we can also translate the text directly from the original by just looking at the handwritten text. But it would be better to translate the text from the editable text. Whatever the format of the original text we have to translate it electronically and in an editable format.
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  • Translation
    The translation of any handwriting will be performed in an editable format and delivered in any convenient format that fits your requirements or standards or specifications. We consider every detail of the source text, whether it is an idiom or a set expression or an old language phrase that is no more used at present time. Most often the direct speech in old text is not highlighted or marked. We translate the text taking into account all forms of speech and any style of narration.
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What You should know about the translation of old Russian handwritten text

Voice From the Past
Historical texts or letters belonging to our ancestors written decades or even hundreds of years ago are of special interest both for us, their descendants, and for public museums. There a lot of manuscripts written in old Russian or English on papyrus which can sometimes shed light on many historical events that were concealed or hushed up. I am sure nearly every family has an old letter of their distant or close relatives with a text describing their internal feelings, impressions, emotions, as well as the environment and events of the past.

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Significant Historical Changes
Over the years people move from place to place, from one country to another, and within two or three generations many would normally forget the language of their ancestors unless spoken in the family. Within last three centuries Russia saw many immigration waves, to Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Israel, United States, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries. The first Russian immigrants left their motherland with a good knowledge of Russian, But their grandsons and granddaughters do not speak Russian any more. And all the papers, documents or letters, were written by their grandfathers and grandmothers in old Russian language.

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Language Was Different
Of course, most letters and texts in the last century and earlier were written by hands, not by printing machines. Only official papers and documents were printed using machines in the 18th and 19th century. The old Russian language had some differences in lexicology and morphology and syntaxes. Our grandparents had a different style of writing their letters. Some of the words had different writing and contained more words than now. Some of the letter in the Russian alphabet looked different.

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How to Understand Our Ancestors
For those who try to decipher the text written centuries ago and recognize the letters and words of the old manuscript it would be helpful to find a professional translator of historical texts of old Russian. It is not so much difficult to recognize the words and read the text written by printing machine. There are thousands of books printed two and more centuries ago in old Russian. Those books are readable because the letters are printed and can be well recognized. But it is a different story with handwritten text. It is very difficult to read old Russian handwritten text as the text was written with a special handwriting style.

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Many of those who had their relatives living in Russia centuries ago would like to know the true history of their forefathers. Not knowing Russian, more so old Russian, they need a Russian translator able to translate an old Russian handwritten text into English. The translator of handwritten text should know perfectly the history, old letters, and old Russian style of writing.

Curious Facts about Our History from Old Russian Letters
It is very interesting and curious what could be learnt from old letters. Some writers of the past wrote about the details of their family, like birth, marriage and death. Some were writing about their feelings, thoughts, and events, like those who were on the front line in the First and Second World Wars. There was one interesting letter of a soldier addressed to his mother. The soldier was wandering why in the advanced 20th century people continued to kills each other in the war. Why nothing changed with the technical and engineering progress. With the technological breakthrough the weapon was also modernized and improved, improved to kill people. Among similar letters there were found letters obviously sent to the front line from relatives of those who fought during the WWII.

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Another letter was from a person who fought on the east border of Russia with Japanese troops. He was describing the hidden facilities built by US navy on the Japan shore as a fortification of the land. And he was saying that it was really strange and unusual to see against what they used to hear from their Soviet officials and history.

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So the old Russian letters may shed light on some historical events that you may never know from official sources or may be you will have an access to some details and confidential information of your ancestors that was kept secret for centuries. Whatever is there in your old Russian letters we are able to help you read them and know your past!

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