General characteristic of stage.
More favorable conditions for the development of Old Faith printing were formed from the beginning the 70's the xviii century this connected first of all with a change of the situation in the uniatskoy church. After the first division of the speech Pospolitoy in 1772 the union, artificially created with the efforts of Jesuits, by the direct conductors of the policy of Rome in Poland, and by Polish kings, could not normally exist without their support. The finally weakened royal power unable was to be occupied by its problems. In 1772 were destroyed ideological leader, defender of union the order of Jesuits.
The uniatskeye bazilianskiye monastery began to grow sickly, was decreased the number of monks, the process of degradation and decomposition was strengthened among those remaining, although the prerequisites for this appeared considerably earlier.
At this time dispatch monastery to everything in order to find means to existence. For some of them the printing became almost sole source of income. They printed literature uniatskuyu, Catholic, civil of the most different nature - from the scientific treatises to the adventure stories. They did not shun to baziliane and by the orders of the old believers, who rapidly reacted to a change in the situation and were turned to them with the business proposals.
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