Catalogue · ID 143
Указ Петра I о книгопечатании
Author: Пётр I
Year of publication: 1720
Published in: указ Синода от 5 октября 1720; публікація Огієнко І.
Describes Russian colonization of peoples: Ukrainians
Publication rights: free (an official document: laws, decrees, resolutions and court decisions are not protected by copyright)
What is here
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| ukaz_petra_i_o_knigopechatanii_1720.txt | text | 4 KB | in this folder |
| ukaz_petra_i_o_knigopechatanii_1720.pdf | 27 KB | in this folder |
Where we got it
Original source: http://litopys.org.ua/ohienko/oh14.htm
The text was transcribed by us from a scan or saved from the source page; the original file is kept alongside so the transcription can be checked.
Where the knowledge base cites it
This material is cited in 4 places.
Campaigns
- Ban on Ukrainian Book Printing (1720)
…the printing of books in the indigenous people's language at the key printing houses: "In the Kyiv-Pechersk and Chernihiv printing houses no new books whatsoever are to be printed except previous church editions, and even those old church books are to be corrected before printing for complete conformity with the Great Russian church books, so that there be no discord or distinct dialect in them"
Procedures
- Annexation of the Kyiv Metropolis by the Moscow Patriarchate (1685–1690) — technique Ban on Worship in the Native Language
Following the establishment of control over the metropolitanate came the gradual unification of liturgical printing and pronunciation along Muscovite models, culminating in Peter I's direct decree of 1720: church books could be printed only after being checked against Muscovite ones, "so that there be no discord or distinct dialect in them"
- Ban on Ukrainian Book Printing (1720) — technique Censorship
The introduction of censorship over book printing by Peter I's decree of 5 October 1720: "no new books whatsoever are to be printed except previous church editions, and even those old church books… are to be corrected before printing"
- Ban on Ukrainian Book Printing (1720) — technique Legislative Ban on the Native Language
The ruler's direct decree against the very language of the local population in print: the same decree of Peter I ordered books to be checked against Muscovite ones, "so that there be no discord or distinct dialect in them"