One thing to note is that Russian italics usually take the letter forms of Russian cursive. Some of these look completely different than the block letter (think

One thing to note is that Russian italics usually take the letter forms of Russian cursive. Some of these look completely different than the block letter (think Latin Q or Z vs their cursive counterparts), so you have to be able to read it for more than just handwriting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cursive#/media/File:Cyrillic_cursive.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cursive#/media/File:Cy...