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Born in Pskov, year of birth unknown; died after 1618, in Moscow. Russian printer.Fofanov worked in Moscow from 1608 to 1618. He devised the Nikita typeface, which was widely used during the first half of the 17th century. Fofanov’s first known publication was the General Monthly Readings. (1609). During the period of the Polish and Swedish intervention, Fofanov moved his “printing cottage ...

Born in Pskov, year of birth unknown; died after 1618, in Moscow. Russian printer.Fofanov worked in Moscow from 1608 to 1618. He devised the Nikita typeface, which was widely used during the first half of the 17th century. Fofanov’s first known publication was the General Monthly Readings. (1609). During the period of the Polish and Swedish intervention, Fofanov moved his “printing cottage ...

Born in Pskov, year of birth unknown; died after 1618, in Moscow. Russian printer.Fofanov worked in Moscow from 1608 to 1618. He devised the Nikita typeface, which was widely used during the first half of the 17th century. Fofanov’s first known publication was the General Monthly Readings. (1609). During the period of the Polish and Swedish intervention, Fofanov moved his “printing cottage ...

1, RaleghSir Walter.? 1552--1618, English courtier, explorer, and writer; favourite of Elizabeth I. After unsuccessful attempts to colonize Virginia (1584--89), he led two expeditions to the Orinoco to search for gold (1595; 1616). He introduced tobacco and potatoes into England, and was imprisoned (1603--16) for conspiracy under James I. He was beheaded in 1618Raleigh. A city in E central ...

Born 1552; died 1623. Duke and Spanish statesman.While prime minister and favorite of Philip III, Lerma governed Spain virtually on his own from 1598 to 1618. He used his position chiefly for personal profit. Thus, he transferred the court to Valladolid in 1601 and then back to Madrid in 1606 to obtain rewards from both cities, and he sold public offices. In order to suppress the bourgeois ...