Moscow Print Yard

Stonemasons S. Dmitriyev and I. Artemyev supervised the erection of a new building over the old foundation, which would later be painted by court icon painter L. Ivanov and house the proofreading chamber and a library.

It was placed under the authority of the Big Palace Prikaz (Приказ Большого дворца) and published the so-called menology books (Анфологион, or Anfologion, 1660), polemical works, translations, textbooks (Букварь 'Primer' by Vasily Burtsov-Protopopov, 1634; Грамматика 'Grammar' by Meletiy Smotritsky, 1648; Арифметика, or 'Arithmetics' by Leonty Magnitsky, 1703, etc.).

In 1710, proofreader Fedor Polikarpov-Orlov (future director of the publishing house from 1726 to 1731) presented a copy of the Alphabet (Азбука) with the pictures of ancient and contemporary Slavonic letters to Peter the Great.

In the middle of the 18th century, they constructed the Baroque-style side housing together with the printing and library premises, which would close the perimeter of the yard (architects Ivan Fyodorovich Michurin and Dmitry Ukhtomsky).

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the Print Yard building on Nikolskaya Street was dismantled and replaced with a monumental edifice for the Synodal Publishing House (1811–1815, architect Ivan Mironovsky).

In the 19th century, the publishing house's buildings were perceived as a single architectural ensemble with the towers and walls of Kitai-gorod, with the extensions and alterations by future generation architects (Mikhail Chichagov, Nikolai Artleben, S. Slutsky and others).