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4 juillet 2018
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Alison K. Smith, « 6. Information and Efficiency: Russian Newspapers, ca. 1700–1850 », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.8sc5o9
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At the end of 1702, while he was engaged in war with Sweden, Peter the Great decreed that a newspaper be established to spread information about “military and every sort of affairs” to “the people of Muscovy and of neighbouring states”. The newspaper (the word used was kuranty, a seventeenth-century holdover soon to be replaced by the word gazeta) was to be compiled from reports from the state’s various chanceries, all sent to the Monastery Chancery, and printed there in the state printing ho...