Russian girl photo: As I have started learning Russian

As I have started learning Russian , I noticed some very interesting similarities between two languages. For example: Persian word for 200 is "Dvist" and the Russian word is "Двести" (Dvesti) Persian word for Winter is "Zemestan" and the Russian word "зима" (zima) - "Zem/Zim/Zam" in Persian... Hello, I’d like to reach out to anyone who might have access to a 19th-century Russian translation of Don Quixote. I’m wondering if the name of the character Quiteria in Part 2, chapter XIX is transliterated Китерия, or perhaps otherwise. In ballet versions of the story, this character is called... I've noticed that folks from Portugal and some from Brasil tend to sound as if they have a Slavic accent when they speak English, you don't see this with speakers of closely related Spanish. So what influences from Portuguese cause this? Hello everyone, I was wondering about the origins of the Russian tradition that transliterates the Latin letter "H" as "Г". For a learner of Russian it may seem strange to see Гайдн, Гейне, Гитлер, Голландия, even Гавр for the French city Le Havre, where the "h" is actually silent. It's...