Compiler and publisher of the first Russian textbooks Ilya Kopievsky (c. 1651–1714). The unknown episodes of biography
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-6541-2022-3-12-28
Abstract
The article presents the new documents and materials about the life and activities of one of the educators of the era of Peter the Great – Ilya Fedorovich Kopievsky (c. 1661–1714). Both the appearance of the first printed textbooks in Russian and the beginning of the implementation of a large-scale project by Peter to publish secular educational literature are directly related to his personality. Meanwhile, the activities of Kopievsky as an author, translator, and publisher of textbooks have not been thoroughly studied so far. Many obscure circumstances are connected with it, providing the researchers with the grounds to express contradictory judgments. The article partially eliminates these uncertainties by referring to the little-known materials and the previously unpublished archival sources. A detailed consideration of those materials and sources allows reconstructing the significant details of Kopievsky’s contribution to educating the Russian nobility during the period of the Great Embassy, of his work on the translations of educational literature and the latter’s consequent publication and distribution in Russia and of Kopievsky’s service in the Posolskii Prikaz in the last years of his life. The article also contains an overview of Kopievsky’s biography, draws attention to the gaps remaining in it, and outlines the prospects of the further archival research for filling them.
About the Author
Yu. P. Zaretskii
HSE University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yury P. Zaretskii, Dr. of Sci. (History), professor
bld. 11, Pokrovsky Blv., Moscow, Russia, 109028
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Zaretskii Yu.P. Compiler and publisher of the first Russian textbooks Ilya Kopievsky (c. 1651–1714). The unknown episodes of biography. History and Archives. 2022;(3):12-28. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-6541-2022-3-12-28
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