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Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin
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Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin was a publisher, entrepreneur, educator, patron, and philanthropist. He was born on 24 January (5 February) 1851 in the village of Gnezdnikovo in the Kostroma Governorate. Sytin was the eldest of four children in the family. His education was limited to three grades of a village school. From the age of twelve he began working as a salesman for a furrier at the Nizhny Novgorod Fair, and then as an apprentice painter. At the age of thirteen he moved to Moscow, and from 1866 he worked in the bookshop of the merchant Sharapov. In 1876 Sytin married Evdokia Ivanovna Sokolova, the daughter of a merchant-confectioner. The couple had ten children — six sons and four daughters. The spouses lived together for almost half a century, until Evdokia Ivanovna's death in 1924.
Sytin's publishing activity covered all areas of book printing. He published textbooks, children's literature, encyclopedias, and collected works of the classics. His publishing house issued both popular magazines such as "Vokrug sveta" ("Around the World") and "Iskry" ("Sparks"), and specialized publications, for example "Khirurgiya" ("Surgery") and "Pravda Bozhia" ("God's Truth"). Sytin also owned the all-Russian newspaper "Russkoye Slovo" ("Russian Word"). Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin passed away in Moscow on 23 November 1934.
Date of birth
05 February 1851
Date of death
23 November 1934
Occupation
Public figure