>> Ivan Dmitrievitch SYTIN

Ivan Dmitrievitch SYTIN (1851 – 1934) – the Moscow publisher and bookseller, who as of the beginning of the First World War published the fourth part of all the books and editions of Russia.

I.D. Sytin established his publishing house in 1883, with reorganization in 1891 into the "Partnership of the Press, Publication and Book Trade of I.D. Sytin & C°".

The first I.D. Sytin’s publication was "The all-Russian calendar for 1885". Afterwards the calendars (25 types) in respect of circulation held the principal place in the book products published by him; they were followed by publications of works of the Russian (A.S. Pushkin, M.Y. Lermontov, I.A. Krylov, A.S. Griboyedov, L.N. Tolstoy, N.A. Ostrovskiy) and foreign (Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, etc.) authors; then by popular publications (oracles, dream interpretation books, song-books and other, which accounted for up to 50 % of the national cheap publications); by religious and spiritual moral literature; by books for kids, including textbooks and school-books; by popular scientific literature.

The publications of I.D. Sytin, who owned two largest and state-of-the -art equipped typographies, were distinct for their high level of publishing craft, they had large circulations and their prices were relatively low.

Among the books published by I.D. Sytin were such ones as "The Military Encyclopedia" (18 volumes), "The Children’s Encyclopedia" (10 volumes), "The Popular Encyclopedia of Scientific and Applied Knowledge" (21 volumes), such series of many volumes as "The Military Reform", "The Patriotic War and the Russian Society" and other, the Russkoye Slovo newspaper, the magazines Around the World, The Sparkles, The Surgery and other.

In 1917 the I.D. Sytin’s Publishing House was nationalized.

Writer Leonid Andreyev appreciated the Sytin’s enterprise as the deed of "enormous importance and significance".

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