Translator S.S. Volchkov and the Birth of Copyright in Russia

The review of the monograph of the Doctor of Historical Sciences A.Yu. Samarin “Academic Translator Sergey Savvich Volchkov and the Book Business in Russia of the 18th Century” (Moscow: Yanus–K, 2022), devoted to the history of book business of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in the 18th century and various aspects of the formation of private book publishing in Russia, is presented. The author of this work reconstructs the biography of the translator, publisher and printer S.S. Volchkov (1707— 1773/1774) on the basis of archival materials. In addition, the book contains information about the life and activities of the translator Ivan Odintsov, about the printed editions of the works of academicians M.V. Lomonosov and G.F. Miller, about the readership of N.M. Karamzin’s Moscow Journal. Information about the work of the printing houses of the Army Cadet Corps and the Mining School is introduced into the scientific turnover.