Pyotr Timofeyevich Mstislavets

Pyotr Timofeyevich Mstislavets was a Belarusian printer, believed to be born in town of Mstsislaw. In collaboration with Ivan Fyodorov he printed the first surviving book with a dated Moscow imprint. The book is the Apostol, whose printing began on 19 April 1563 and completed on 1 March 1564.

In 1565 Pyotr Mstislavets printed two editions of the Breviary, but soon he and Fedorov left Moscow. They opened a new printing shop in Zabludovo (then Grand Duchy of Lithuania, now Hrodna region in Belarus) on the premises of the estate of hetman Jeremi Chodkiewicz. They worked in Zabludovo during the years 1568-69 until Mstislavets left settled in Vilnius, a flourishing capital of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In Vilnius he came in contact with the wealthy merchant brothers Lukas and Kuzma Mamonichs. He printed in Vilnius until in 1576 he came into conflict with Mamonichs. The court decided that Mstislavets return all of his printed books to the merchants and that he can keep his typographical equipment. It is possible that Mstislavets continued his printing activities in Ostrog, Ukraine.