(Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, 2020) Condrea, Iraida
In the 19th century, after the annexation of Bessarabia to the Russian Empire, the activity of printing and disseminating religious texts was oriented towards the rules imposed by the Russian ecclesiastical authorities. A synodical Ukase from 1814 contained the provision that in the newly established Exarchical Printing House in Chisinau, church books that will be translated from Slavonic after the same synodical books, will also be printed in the “Moldavian” language. In addition to some texts taken over in full from previous editions, in Chisinau were also printed translations and adaptations. More recently, during this period, the 19th century – the beginning of the 20th century, a series of editions with parallel text were published in Russian and Romanian, which are part of the diglot tradition, less practiced in the Bessarabian space.
