Quote Originally Posted by N
Quote Originally Posted by Vlacko
Interesting vocative doesn't exist in Russian.
It exists. So-called "new vocative". We lost our old slavic vocative indeed.

Лен, дай мне, пожалуйста, карандаш.
Вась, подойди-ка сюда.

It doesn't exist in textbooks, though.
I posted somewhere else:

Examples of old vocatives still in use in Russian.
боже (бог) - боже мой!, also: о, боже! - My god!
отче наш (отец) - My Father (from the prayer)