Consonants

[Robert Mathiesen]

Sorry, Chuck, I wrote unclearly: I didn't mean that the *verb* wasn't
Russian, but only that the *form* umershchvl'shij wasn't Russian, but
Modern [Synodal] Church Slavonic.  The verb, of course, is in both
languages.  The original questioner asked about long clusters in
Russian or Church Slavonic of any period.  --  Robert

(Robert Mathiesen, Brown University, SL500000 at BROWNVM.BITNET)