Freemason, Nikolay Ivanovich Novikov was Director of Moscow University Press beginning in 1779. His extraordinary output of Masonic journals and books was supported by masonic lodges, the Russian Orthodox heirarchy and Russian monarchy. Russian Orthodox Archbishop Platon wished that, "in the entire world there would be such Christians as Novikov."
From, Novikov: From Masonry to Orthodoxy, by Adam Drozdek
