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Ivan Fyodorov (printer)
Ivan Fyodorov
(, sometimes transliterated as
Fedorov
or
Fiodorov
) or
Fedorovic
(
Fedorovych
, ,
Fedorow
) (born ca. 1525 in
Grand Duchy of Moscow
, died December 16, 1583 in
Lwów
,
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
) was one of the fathers of
Eastern Slavonic
printing
(along with
Schweipolt Fiol
and
Francysk Skaryna
), he was the first known Ruthenian printer in
Muscovy
and the
Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
, he was also a skilled
cannon
maker and the inventor of a
multibarreled
mortar
.
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