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Dr. Sergei Bogatyrev, 果冻影院 SSEES
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A lecture by , co-sponsored by the 果冻影院 School of Slavonic & East European Studies.

Print shops appeared in Russia during the reign of Tsar Ivan the Terrible (1547-1584). The most famous among them was the press of Ivan Fedorov, whose books set standards for many subsequent editions. However the overall number of books printed in Russia before Peter the Great remained disappointingly small in comparison with the West. Is this a sign of Russia鈥檚 technological backwardness? Did Ivan the Terrible and the Orthodox church persecute Ivan Fedorov, who had to leave Moscow for the territory of modern Ukraine? In this illustrated talk Dr. Sergei Bogatyrev will discuss the relationship between the printer, the Tsar and the church. Ivan the Terrible and Orthodox hierarchs acted as patrons of printing. The Tsar and the church had different attitudes to the printing press, but there was no hate towards the printed book in Muscovy. On the basis of his study of Ivan Fedorov鈥檚 unique editions held in British collections, Dr. Bogatyrev will offer a new explanation for Ivan Fedorov鈥檚 departure from Moscow and for the uneven development of printing in Russia.

Dr. Sergei Bogatyrev is Senior Lecturer in Early Russian History at the School of Slavonic & East European Studies, 果冻影院 . He was granted a core fellowship by the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies in 2014-2015. Bogatyrev is a leading specialist on early Russian culture, with particular focus on Ivan the Terrible. His publications include听The Sovereign and His Counsellors (2000),听a chapter on Ivan the Terrible in听The Cambridge History of Russia听and a chapter on medieval Novgorod in听Europe. A Literary History 1348-1418听(Oxford University Press, 2016). Bogatyrev is the editor of听Ivan Vasil鈥檈vich Receives a Profession: Studies of Ivan the Terrible in Post-Soviet Russia (2014).听Bogatyrev acted as the principal investigator in the international project鈥淩evisiting Ivan Fedorov鈥檚 Legacy in Early Modern Europe鈥澨�and edited听鈥淭he Journeys of Ivan Fedorov: New Perspectives on Early听Cyrillic听Printing听(special issue of Canadian-American Slavic Studies, 2017, vol.51, issue 2-3). He is also one of the editors of听鈥淗istory and Literature in 18th Century Russia鈥澨�(2013) and the author of numerous articles in leading international journals.

We have a limited number of free tickets available for SSEES staff and students for that event. Please contact the Director鈥檚 Office for more information.