Lviv Dormition Brotherhood Press
A press founded by the Lviv Dormition Brotherhood in 1586. With a printing press and other equipment used by Ivan Fedorovych (Fedorov), it printed liturgical books, primers, poetry, dramas, and theological, educational, and polemical literature. Its oldest extant publications date from 1591: the 1589 charter of Patriarch Jeremiah II granting the brotherhood the right of stauropegion, a booklet of verses in honor of Metropolitan Mykhailo Rahoza titled Prosphonima, and thegrammar Adelphotes. From 1591 to 1722 the press issued 140 books with a total run of some 160,000 copies. They were distributed throughout Polish-ruled Ukraine and Belarus, and even in Wallachia, Moldavia, Serbia, and Bulgaria. They were not, however, permitted to be sold in Russian-ruled Ukraine until 1707. Among the authors published were Pamvo Berynda, Andrii Skolsky, Ioanykii Volkovych, Sylvestr Kosiv, Arsenii Zhelyborsky, and Mykhail Kozachynsky. The press's directors and master printers included the monk Myna, P. Kulchych, P. Berynda, Y. Kyrylovych, Mykhailo Slozka, A. Skulsky, I. Kunotovych, D. Kulchytsky, S. Polovetsky, Semen Stavnytsky, Vasyl Stavnytsky, D. Pyniavsky, I. Hrozevsky, and Ya. Paslavsky. The press played an important role in the intellectual life of Ukraine and the defense of the Orthodox church. In 1788 the Lviv brotherhood and its press were succeeded by the Stauropegion Institute.
Semen Sidliar
Ukrainian Printing Pioneers
(16th century)
Senko Korunka
Printer from Lviv
(16th century)
Printer Kulchytska (first name unknown)
Press's Directors and Master Printer after her Husband's Death
(16th century)
Josyp Gorodeckiy
First Printed Musical Notation with Movable Type
(17th century)
Monk Myna
Scholar and Printer
(17th century)
