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The term 'Old Russian language' normally refers to the 'Old East Slavic language' that was spoken in Novgorod Rus, Kievan Rus', and their successor states from the 9th to 14th centuries. It was the ancestor of all four East Slavic languages: Belarusian, Russian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian.
For the Eastern dialect of the Old East Slavic spoken in Muscovite Russia in the 15th to 17th centuries, see the Muscovite section of 'History of the Russian language'.