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Biritch

Herald and announcer in Kievan Rus'

A biritch (also birich or biryuch; Russian: бирич, бирюч) in Kievan Rus' was a herald, an announcer of the will of a knyaz, sometimes his deputy in police

Biritch

Contract bridge

Card game

dated 28 May 1906, document the origin of Biritch as being the Russian community in Constantinople. The word biritch is thought to be a transliteration of

Contract bridge

Contract_bridge

History of contract bridge

trick-taking games such as whist. Bridge departed from whist with the creation of Biritch (or "Russian Whist") in the 19th century, and evolved through the late

History of contract bridge

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Bridge whist

Card game

that included bidding. Bridge Whist was a form of Russian Whist known as Biritch or Britch around the Eastern Mediterranean, in which instead of a simple

Bridge whist

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Vint

Card game

dated May 28, 1906, document the origin of Biritch as the Russian community in Constantinople. The word biritch is thought to be a transliteration of the

Vint

Treshchotka

Biritches, by Viktor Vasnetsov. The leftmost biritch holds a ratchet-type treshchotka

Treshchotka

Eralash (card game)

manual for Eralash/Yeralash in 1869 in Austria. Yerlash was similar to Biritch and has been proposed as an ancestor of Bridge, but it is more complex

Eralash (card game)

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List of contract bridge books

Bridge-Whist has emerged with John Collinson's four page pamphlet entitled Biritch, or Russian Whist. (Earlier, in 1869, Christian Vanderheid, an Austrian

List of contract bridge books

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List of English words of Russian origin

and comes from English. Bridge (game) (from the Old East Slavic: бирич biritch). Cosmonaut Russian: космона́вт (IPA [kəsmɐˈnaft]), a Russian or Soviet

List of English words of Russian origin

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List of English words of Turkic origin

gentleman". Bridge game the word came into English from the Russian word, biritch, which in turn originates from a Turkic word for "bugler" (in modern Turkish:

List of English words of Turkic origin

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