 The reasoning behind it was that Serbs under the Austrian rule had more faith in books published in Russia than in the West.While still in Venice, Orfelin also printed one of the most important copper engravings, "St. George with the Image of the Monastery of Sendjuradj" (1767), and the first one that he signed as a member of the Imperial Engraving Academy founded by Austrian Jacob Schmutzer.Orfelin was one of the most notable representatives of the Serbian Baroque literature (although he worked in the first half of the 18th century, as Baroque trends in Serbian literature emerged in the late 17th century); yet his writings bear certain ideas of European Enlightenment and Rationalism.