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Pyotr Mstislavets
MSTISLAVETS Pyotr Timofeyevich
(beginning of the XVI century – after 1577)
One of the first printers of the East Slavs; founder of the first Russian printing house in Moscow
Pyotr Mstislavets was born in the town of Mstislavl of Mogilev region. In cooperation with Ivan Fedorov he established the first Russian printing house in Moscow (Russia), where in March of 1564 printed the first on the territory of the Grand Duchy of Moscow accurately dated printed prayer book “The Apostole”. In 1565, he printed two editions of “The Breviary”, which were used in divine services and in learning of reading and writing. In 1568, Mstislavets with Fedorov used the typographical implements taken out from Moscow and established new printing house in a town of Zabludovo, Grodno region, in the estate of Lithuanian Hetman Hrehory Chodkiewicz, where in 1569 printed “The Gospel”. The book had a great number of copies printed. It was being sold at the markets of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania; a number of copies were distributed in the Grand Duchy of Moscow. In 1569, Pyotr Mstislavets moved to Wilno (now Vilnius, Lithuania), where in 1574 opened new printing house, equipped and financed by merchants Mamonichs. He founded new font, made plates, headpieces and initial capitals. In the Wilno printing house he printed “The Gospel” (1575), “The Psalter” (1576), “The Breviary” (1576). Later his typographical implements (fonts, ornament, and initial capitals) were frequently found in the editions of such printing houses like Ostrozhsky and others of the XVI – the beginning of XVII century in Ukraine.
Литература:
1. Зернова А. С. Первопечатник Петр Тимофеев Мстиславец // Книга. Исследования и материалы. Сб. IX. М.: Книга, 1964. С. 77–111.
2. Батвіннік М. Б. Мсціславец Пётр Цімафеевіч // Асветнікі зямлі Беларускай: Энцыклапедычны даведнік. Мінск: Беларуская Энцыклапедыя, 2001. С. 296–298.
© National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 2011
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