Editing Pyotr Mstislavets (section)

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'''Pyotr Timofeyevich Mstislavets (Timofeyev)''' ({{langx|be|Пётр Цімафеевіч Мсціславец}}; {{langx|ru|link=no|Пётр Тимофеевич Мстиславец (Тимофеев)}}) was a Belarusian [[printer (publisher)|printer]] and [[Ivan Fyodorov (printer)|Ivan Fedorov]]'s associate in Moscow.

Historians believe that Pyotr Mstislavets was born in a [[Belarus]]ian town of [[Mstsislaw]]. Together with Ivan Fedorov, he printed the first Russian dated printed book ''Apostole'' (Апостолъ) on March 1, 1564 in Moscow. In 1565 Pyotr Mstislavets printed two editions of the ''Breviary'' (Часовникъ). Soon he and Ivan Fedorov had to leave Moscow. They opened a new print shop in [[Zabłudów]] (Zabludiv or Zabludaŭ, [[Grand Duchy of Lithuania]], now in [[Poland]]) on the premises of the estate of [[hetman]] [[Jeremi Chodkiewicz]]. Here Mstislavets and Fedorov printed ''The Gospel'' (Учительное евангелие) in 1568–1569. In the summer of 1569 Mstislavets left for [[Vilnius]] and soon opened a print shop, equipped and financed by [[merchant]]s Mamonichs. Here he printed ''[[Четвероевангеліе|The Four Gospels]]'' (Четвероевангеліе) in 1574–1575, which contained four full-page [[engraving]]s with [[Evangelist portrait]]s. In January 1576 Mstislavets finished printing the ''Psalter'' (Псалтырь) with a [[woodcut]] [[Book frontispiece|frontispiece]],  (Tsar David, or Царь Давид), multiple [[illumination (manuscript)|illumination]]s and decorated capital letters. In 1576 Mstislavets severed his relations with the Mamonichs. The [[court]] mandated him to return all of his printed books to the merchants and allowed him to keep his [[typographical]] equipment. Historians believe that after this incident Mstislavets continued his printing activities in [[Ostroh]], Ukraine.