The printing and the old Romanian book (1508-1830) entered the system of European values at the beginning of the 16th century. The Romanians introduced the printing with Cyrillic letters quite quickly in comparison with other European states. The printing press appeared firstly in the Wallachia in 1508, when the hieromonk Macarie printed a number of religious books in Slavonic language at Targoviste, for Orthodox Christian Romanians and Slavonic people of Europe. The printings in the Romanian language will enter the cultural circuit from the fifth decennium of the 16th century. The typographies of Transylvania printed at first books in the Latin and German languages, and in 1544 a Romanian Catechism appeared at Sibiu, which aimed at promoting the Lutheran ideas amongst Romanians. Sibiu and Brasov became the main centers of spreading the Lutheranism of Transylvania. There were printed in the typography of Brasov, founded in 1535 by Johan Honterus, during 1535-1557 over 50 works in Latin, Greek and German languages, spread in the countries of Europe. Once the deacon Coresi came to Brasov in the half of the 16th century, it was started the publication of books with Cyrillic letters in the Slavonic, Romanian and bilingual languages for the Orthodox Christians. The Romanian printing activity knew a stagnation period that lasted from the last decennium of the 16th century until the fourth decennium of the 17th century. It restarted its activity during the reign of Matei Basarab in the Wallachia (1632-1654) and Vasile Lupu (1634-1653) in Moldova. The printing was introduced in Moldova in 1942, and in comparison with the Wallachia and Transylvania, books in the Romanian language were preponderantly printed here, but over time, books in the Greek language destined for the Orthodoxies of Ottoman Empire were also printed. After 1812, the East side of Moldova was annexed to Tsarist Russia. In 1814, it was founded in Chisinau, the capital of this province, a printing house providing literature for the churches of the eparchy; some of them were identified in countries of Central and Western Europe or in culture centres of Ukraine and Russia. Therefore, the books printed in the Romanian Countries, mainly of religious purpose in Romanian, Slavonic, Latin, German and Greek languages, were used by the Christians of different countries of Europe, in the West and East sides.