Ivan Fyodorov

Ivan Fyodorov (c. 1510–1583) was the first printer of Muscovy. He became a deacon in the Moscow Kremlin and in 1564 set up the Moscow Print Yard with Pyotr Mstislavets, issuing the Apostol, the first dated printed book in Russia.

Persecuted by scribes and forced to flee after his workshop burned, he found refuge with Hetman Hrehory Chodkiewicz in Lithuania, printing the Didactic Gospel at Zabłudów in 1569. From 1572 he worked in Lviv.

In the service of Prince Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, he established a press at Ostrog and printed the first complete Church Slavonic Bible in 1581. He died in Lviv in 1583.