Well, I have news for you - it's not Cyrillic at all, but Greek!

Though it did take me a couple of minutes to be sure, as so many of the letters (not surprisingly) are similar or the same. .

But I’m afraid my Greek isn’t up to any more than that. I can't tell if it's a diary or a novel or what. I'll browse a bit more at a slower pace but wanted to get this reply to you asap. And of course there may well be other people here able to read that obviously very rapid cursive hand. It's years since I read Greek (Ancient, at that) in earnest.

Were you aware of any Greek ancestry in your family?



The title on the spine is the same word as that at the top of the first page, and the very last word on the last page, with the decorative helix, is “Telos” – The End.