Dr. Hurlbutt brings you a moment from Russian history

Posted on Friday, January 16, 2009, at 9:05 am, by Dr. Allardyce Hurlbutt.

In 1564 the first printing press to be set up in Moscow was burned down by a mob that considered it the work of the devil.

Source: Carolyn Johnston Pouncy, introduction to The Domostroi: Rules for Russian Households in the Time of Ivan the Terrible, ed. and trans. Carolyn Johnston Pouncy (Ithaca, NY, 1994), 19.