Church and Monastery of Saint Onuphrius is a remarkable historical and artistic monument. The Church contains the tomb of Russia’s first printer Ivan Fyodorov. On leaving Moscow in 1567 Ivan Fyodorov lived in Zabludov and at the end of 1572 moved to Lvov. He settled in the Podzamche where he set up a printing press in one of the cells of the Saint Onuphrius Monastery. In 1574 he published his first book The Apostle and a Russian Grammar. Fyodorov set up another printing shop near the Church of the Assumption.
The Russian printer spent several years in Ostrog where he printed his famous Ostrog Bible and the New Testament and Psalter. Towards the end of his life he returned to Lvov where Ivan Fydorovich died in 1583.
When the cemetery in the grounds of the Monastery was done away with in the 18th century Fyodorov’s tombstone was moved to the Church, where in 1883 it was put into the floor of the Trinity Chapel. In 1902 during reconstruction work it was blocked in by a new wall. The tombstone has not survived; a replica has been preserved at the Lvov Museum of History.
[...] and a printing house. Not far from the Church – in Blyakharskaya Street now renamed to Ivan Fyodorov Street (Ulitsa Ivana Fyodorova) until the 19th century there was the house of Bildaga, a middle [...]