Talk:Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'

WTF is Rus'
Is it a translation error for Russian? or Russia ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.106.120.69 (talk) 18:24, 21 August 2012 (UTC)


 * "всея Руси" literally translates to "of all Rus." "Of all the Russias" is often used instead to be a bit less awkward while still expressing the underlying concept; you'll even find "of all Russia," which is the least accurate since it implies the modern Russian state but also seems least awkward in English. In the archives of the New York Times and Time Magazine, you'll find all those translations used.  Anyway, in Russian, "Русь" as a proper noun is a historic term you'll typically only see in relation to historic titles, like those of the Patriarch and Tsar.  See the article Rus_(region) for more on this identity. --Lenin1991 (talk) 21:14, 28 August 2012 (UTC)


 * I forgot to mention, the apostrophe at the end of Rus' is the translit of the character ь, the last character in the nominative form of Русь. You'll often see that dropped in common (e.g. journalistic) translations. See Romanization of Russian.  --Lenin1991 (talk) 21:20, 28 August 2012 (UTC)