Informații inedite despre Nicanor Dezideriev și tipografia sa particulară din Chișinău [Articol]

Abstract

New information about Nicanor Dezideriev and his particular typography from Chisinau. The printing activity in Chisinau began with the opening in 1814 of the Exarchist Printing House with the contribution of Metropolitan Gavriil Bănulescu-Bodoni, in which only books of church use and some didactic ones were printed. In 1834, the Printing Office of the Regional Administration was opened in Chisinau, which executed all the printing orders of the Governor’s Chancellery and other state institutions. After long efforts, on January 17, 1841, Achim Popov established the first private lithography in Chisinau, and after numerous efforts, on May 4, 1843, he obtained permission to install a printing house. It was only on April 9, 1858, that the establishment of private printing houses in the empire was allowed by the decision of the Russian senate. Among the first requests, after the appearance of this decision, was that of Nicanor Ilarion Dezideriev, who, following the steps forwarded to the governor of Bessarabia and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, obtained permission to open the second private printing house in Bessarabia on May 19, 1858. In 1875, Nicanor Dezideriev died and the printing house was taken over on December 12, 1875 by his sister, Sofia Dezideriev. She, being sick and following a course of treatment in the city of Balta, her brother Pavel Desideriev insists on July 18, 1879 to manage his sister’s printing house. Sofia Desideriev died shortly after, and on July 28, 1879, Pavel asks for permission to sell Sofia Desideriev’s printing house to Ivan Alexandrovich Lupandino, a resident of Chisinau, a law candidate at Moscow University: a fast typewriter, a manual printing press, different sets of letters in nine different wooden boxes, recorded in the rope notebooks of the printing house. In July 1879, the certificate was issued allowing Ivan Lupandino to buy Sofia Desideriev’s printing house. The printing house was taken over in 1880 by his wife Maria Rafailovna, who after her husband’s death remarried and became Vishnevski. He managed the printing house until June 2, 1889, when he sold it to Alexandr Kontramadov. From this moment on, the traces of the printing house established by Nicanor Desideriev are lost.