On your pages about pieces in the history of Chess section, I have found that you have Russian words done in a strange ways. What you have is an attempt to write Russian words using Latin characters, but instead of doing this phonetically you are trying to reproduce words visually.

This is very confusing since the result doesn't read same as Russian word sounds, and doesn't exactly look the same. Since most modern browsers recognize Unicode and correctly render non-Latin fonts, here are the Russian words in questions with translations and phonetic transcriptions.

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English:   Russian:       Phonetic:

Chess      Шахматы       Shahmati
King         Король            Korol'
Queen      Ферзь        Ferz'
Rook        Ладья           Lad'ya ( literal translation - boat ( archaism ) )
Bishop     Слон                 Slon    ( literal translation - elephant )
Knight      Конь               Kon'     ( literal translation - horse/stallion )
Pawn       Пешка          Peshka

Hope this helps.
Great site.

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