Russian inscriptions of the XVII — XVIII centuries on the old printed editions: from the history of the spread of Cyrillic books in the Urals and Siberia

Abstract

The article introduces into scientific circulation a number of newly found historically valuable records on Russian old printed books, which contain new information from the history of the development of Siberia and the Urals. The conquest of these territories at the end of the XVI — XVII centuries was accompanied by the advancement of Cyrillic books to the east, including printed books, which were produced by the first Russian printers, and later by the Moscow Printing Yard. This fact is very vividly illustrated for the first time in historiography by the published book contribution of the last Khanty ruler of the principality of Koda Dmitry Alachev, which is also connected with the history of the Samarovsky Yam (the forerunner of Khanty-Mansiysk). The Stroganov dynasty played a key role in the conquest of the Ural-Siberian lands and the spread of Orthodox literature there, previously unknown book contributions and memorial records of representatives of which, in addition, are investigated in the article. No less valuable is the contribution inscription of the voevoda Prokopy Elizarov to the Kassianov monastery, which we discovered.

Keywords

• old-printed cyrillic books
• inscriptions
• the principality of koda
• stroganovs family
• princes alachevs
• kassian uchemsky
• the development of siberia