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Birth – Warsaw, Poland – 1910

This document is a page of death records in a column/table format from Warsaw, Poland.

Russian/Death Orthodox Table

Below are a Russian transcription and an English translation of this death record. Click on any image on this page to open it in a new tab where you can zoom in and take a closer look.

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Transcription
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Translation

Because this document uses archaic spelling, it may still prove difficult to read for those familiar with modern Russian. See our Alphabet Overview page to familiarize yourself with uncommon Cyrillic letters or our Individual Letters pages to see examples of handwritten Cyrillic letters. To see common column headings in modernized Russian, go to the Death Records Overview page of this tutorial.

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