Mstislavets Peter Timofeevich

Russian 'book artist', printer XVI in. One of the closest associates of the first printer and. Fedorova. Together with him in 1564, Mr.. released in Moscow the first Russian dated printed book 'The Apostle'. Since the early 70-ies. worked in Lithuania. On the motives of the move in Lithuania there are several different points of view: some consider, . that he escaped from the repression of Ivan the Terrible, . others believe, . that he served overseas assignment of the king of the Orthodox education of the population of Lithuania and Poland through the publication of books in Church Slavonic.,