The Snegirev Publishing company and the Teaching Corporation of the theological schools of Sergiev Posad in 1878-1917.
Keywords:
Moscow, printing house, publishing house, A. I. Snegireva’s “Pechatnya”, Trinity Sergius Lavra, Sergiev Posad, Moscow Theological Academy, Bethany Theological Seminary, Bogoslovsky Vestnik, L. F. Snegirev, A. I. Snegireva, Archimandrite Anthony (Khrapovitsky), Bishop Amphilochius (Sergievsky-Kazantsev) of Uglich, A. A. Titov, B. L. SnegirevAbstract
The Moscow publishing and printing enterprise of the lawyer and writer L. F. Snegirev, which was established in 1878 on the basis of its own printing house, gradually came under the management of his wife and was known as the A. I. Snegireva’s “Pechatnya” in recent decades. Initially, the “Pechatnya” focused on publishing scientific, theological, ecclesiastical, and spiritual literature, as well as books on history, culture, art, medicine, and traditional Christian pedagogy. The Snegirevs’ company’s activities flourished during their collaboration with the Moscow Theological Academy and the establishment of a branch in Sergiyev Posad, the first major city printing house (“2nd Printing House of A. I. Snegireva in Sergiyev Posad, Moscow Province” (1892–1898)), which began publishing the academic journal “Bogoslovsky Vestnik” on a monthly basis and produced numerous remarkable scientific, theological, and church-historical books by the Academy’s professors, the Vifan Seminary, and other authors over the course of seven years. The “Pechatnya” set an example and served as a model for the creation of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra’s own printing house. Throughout its entire operation (until the October Revolution of 1917), the “Pechatnya” produced thousands of books, with dozens of them becoming classics and being reprinted multiple times in changing ideological conditions. The article provides extensive bibliographic descriptions of the published books, revealing the main periods of activities of the “Pechatnya”, and its interaction with the Academy. It also includes a number of new archival data, some of which are published in the article’s appendix.The bibliographic lists in the appendix provide a fairly complete overview of the authors from the Academy and Seminary, as well as the diversity of topics covered in publications of the “Pechatnya”, and serve to demonstrate the background of modern research.
