Francysk Skaryna was a Belarusian humanist, physician, and translator. He is known to be one of the first book printers in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in all of Eastern Europe, laying the groundwork for the development of the Belarusian izvod of the Church Slavonic language.
Francysk Skaryna
Title page of Skaryna's Bible
The Little Traveller's Book (Ruthenian: Малая подорожная книжка), printed in Vilnius, in 1522
Image from "Song of Songs" of Francysk Skaryna, 1519
Belarusian is an East Slavic language. It is one of the two official languages in Belarus, alongside Russian. Additionally, it is spoken in some parts of Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, and Ukraine by Belarusian minorities in those countries.
The Casimir's Code of 1468, in Ruthenian
The third Lithuanian statute of 1588, all three written in Ruthenian
Ruthenian Bible by Francysk Skaryna, 1517, first ever book printed in Eastern Europe
The cover of the copy of the Dictionary of the Belarusian Local Tongue by Ivan Nasovič preserved at the Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum