Panievciis in Podolia

Background. The article introduces the reader to the history of the founding of the first printing house in Podillia in Panivtsi and its book output. It also reveals the activities of the school-academy and the Calvinist church opened in Panivtsi Castle by the Kamianets-Podilskyi headman Jan Potocki. Methods. The work used cultural-historical, functional, and descriptive-analytical methods. Results. Based on extensive historiographical material, biographical information about the Kamianets-Podilskyi headman Jan Potocki and the history of built by him on the territory of the Panivtsi castle the school-academy, printing house, and church were researched. The reasons of the spread and decline of Calvinism in Podillia were analyzed. The study focuses on the education system that was conducted in the elementary school and academy in Panivtsi. It was found that students in the lower grades studied trivium subjects and read the catechism of John Calvin. The higher school, also called the academy, taught quadrivium subjects and provided education in a religious spirit. During the school-academy's activities, about 50 students studied there. Considerable attention in the study was paid to the printing house, which in a short time printed a number of important polemical works that are now rarities. The technical process of book production was supervised by the printer from Vilnius Lavrenty Malakhovych. The largest number of books printed in the Panivtsi printing house belong to the talented preacher of the local church, Jan Zygrovsky. The works of Jan Khotsimovsky and Peter Hilovsky were also printed there. The article analyzes the creative work of Jan Zygrovsky, written by him after the closure of the school-academy, printing house and church in Panivtsi. Conclusions. The activities of the school-academy and printing house built by Jan Potocki on the territory of Paniewicz Castle had a significant impact on the religious life of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at that time. A number of important works were printed there, in which a multidimensional polemic with Catholics was conducted

Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Central European national history · European Cultural and National Identity