[Tex/LaTex] Fonts supporting cursive cyrillic chars

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I'd like to know if there is some font to produce the cursive Cyrillic characters as in the image

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This may partially explain the lack of easy to find fonts supporting cursive Cyrillic characters:

The early Cyrillic alphabet is difficult to represent on computers. Many of the letterforms differed from modern Cyrillic, varied a great deal in manuscripts, and changed over time. Few fonts include adequate glyphs to reproduce the alphabet. In accordance with Unicode policy, the standard does not include letterform variations or ligatures found in manuscript sources unless they can be shown to conform to the Unicode definition of a character.

The Unicode 5.1 standard, released on 4 April 2008, greatly improves computer support for the early Cyrillic and the modern Church Slavonic language. In Microsoft Windows, Segoe UI is notable for having complete support for the archaic Cyrillic letters since Windows 8.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script

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[Tex/LaTex] Computer Modern fonts and Cyrillic letters

Polyglossia loads fontspec, but the default font is Latin Modern, which has no support for Cyrillic.

You can load the Computer Modern Unicode fonts instead:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}

\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{CMU Serif}

\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage{russian}

\newcommand{\RU}[1]{\foreignlanguage{russian}{#1}}

\begin{document}
\noindent
\textrm{Hello! \RU{Привет!}}\\
\textit{Hello! \RU{Привет!}}\\
\textbf{Hello! \RU{Привет!}}\\
\textbf{\textit{Hello! \RU{Привет!}}}\\
\textsl{Hello! \RU{Привет!}}\\
\textsc{Hello! \RU{Привет!}}
\end{document}

I'd still use language changing commands, even if the font directly supports Cyrillic, because hyphenation would be incorrect (or missing) otherwise.

In case you don't have installed the CMU fonts as system fonts, you need a different way to call them, assuming your TeX Live has them.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}

\setmainfont[
  Ligatures=TeX,
  Extension=.otf,
  BoldFont=cmunbx,
  ItalicFont=cmunti,
  BoldItalicFont=cmunbi,
]{cmunrm}

\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage{russian}

\newcommand{\RU}[1]{\foreignlanguage{russian}{#1}}

\begin{document}
\noindent
\textrm{Hello! \RU{Привет!}}\\
\textit{Hello! \RU{Привет!}}\\
\textbf{Hello! \RU{Привет!}}\\
\textbf{\textit{Hello! \RU{Привет!}}}\\
\textsl{Hello! \RU{Привет!}}\\
\textsc{Hello! \RU{Привет!}}
\end{document}

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There's no slanted CMU font, so the call to \textsl becomes the same as \textit. One could artificially slant the upright font.

[Tex/LaTex] Latex fonts Cyrillic fonts with lh

I think that does what you want:

\documentclass[10pt,a5paper,draft]{book}
\usepackage[T2A]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[russian, english]{babel}

\begin{document}

\rmfamily
Какой-то осмысленный текст1.

\sffamily
Какой-то осмысленный текст2.

\ttfamily
Какой-то осмысленный текст3.

\end{document}

It produces

three different styles of font

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