Great Russian language
Great Russian language (Великорусский язык, Velikorusskiy yazyk) is a language evolved from Old Russian in northern Russian principalities under influence of Church Slavonic and several non-slavic languages. The name comes from the word Velikorossiya, or Greater Russia, the term used in Russian Empire to distinguish the Russia proper from Malorossiya (Russia Minor, now Ukraine) and Byelorussia (White Russia, now Belarus).
For political reasons, the great russian language evolved under the significant influence of the Moscow dialect.
Later, with development of Russia, it became official language of Russian Empire and eventually evolved into the modern Russian language.
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