Типография т-ва И.Сытина/Publishing House of I.D. Sytin & Assoc. 1907

Россия в дореволюционных фотографиях
Типография т-ва И.Сытина
1907.

Russia in pre-revolutionary photographs
Publishing House of I.D. Sytin & Assoc.
1907

Music:
Impromptu by M. Balakirev. Played here by Vyachediav Kruglov

Sytin's printing house was one of the main employers of "agency labor", that is, almost everything was given "on contracts" to small owners. These workers were not covered by any - albeit small - benefits of "regular" employees. However, Sytin did not indulge his workers, as he was very tight-fisted. Once he calculated that punctuation marks make up about 12% of the set, and, on reflection, decided to pay the typesetters only for the letters they typed. Meanwhile, the set at that time was carried out manually, and the worker did not care whether he took a letter or a comma from the cash register - the labor efforts in both cases were the same. It is not surprising that the typesetters met Sytin's proposal with hostility.
During the December uprising of 1905 in Moscow, Sytin's printing house on Valovaya Street was one of the centres of the most stubborn resistance and burned down as a result of street fighting.
In 1906, the burned-down printing house was restored and in the same year another printing house was built in Moscow - on Tverskaya Street for the publication of the newspaper "Russian Word".
In 1914, the publishing house produced over a quarter of all book production in Russia. In October 1918, the ID Sytin Partnership was nationalised, the printing house on Valovaya Street was suspended, and in 1919 the printing house was transferred to the State Publishing House .

Видео Типография т-ва И.Сытина/Publishing House of I.D. Sytin & Assoc. 1907 канала Nigel Fowler Sutton