Kievan Rus'
Kievan Rus', also known as Kyivan Rus,.
* was the first East Slavs, East Slavic state and later an amalgam of principalities in Eastern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century.John Channon & Robert Hudson, ''Penguin Historical At ...
from year 1498 to 1649, revealing valuable information about the political and economic conditions of the Ukrainian lands, as well as their relations with other polities, such as
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukrai ...
,
Moscow
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, and the
Crimean Khanate
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. It describes such events as the Crimean Tatar raids, imposition of Catholicism in
Western Ukraine
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by
Uniate
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clergy and nobility, the
Ukrainian Cossack
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rebellion of the 1630s, and the
Khmelnytsky Uprising
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(1648—1654). It mentions a number of unique stories from Ukrainian history that are not available from any other source.
The text of the ''Lviv Chronicle'' was discovered in the beginning of 19th century by the Western Ukrainian Russophile historian
Denis Zubrytsky
Denis Ivanovych Zubrytsky (, ; 1777 – January 16, 1862), was the first Ukrainian historian in Galicia and a major early figure in the Galician Russophile movement.
. The manuscript of the ''Chronicle'' was kept at the
Stauropegion Institute
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and is now stored in the Central Scientific Library of the
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
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in
Kyiv
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,
Ukraine
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.АРХІВНА І БІБЛІОГРАФІЧНА ДОВІДКА ПРО ЛЬВІВСЬКИЙ ЛІТОПИС І ОСТРОЗЬКИЙ ЛІТОПИСЕЦЬ
It was first published in
Moscow
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in 1839 by the Russian historian
Mikhail Pogodin
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and later published in
Lviv
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in the 1870s. The Etterov copy of the ''Lviv Chronicle'' (GPB F.IV.144) is stored in the
Russian State Library
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.
The ''Lviv Chronicle'' is very similar to the
Sofia Second Chronicle
The Sofia Second Chronicle is a Russian chronicle from the 16th century. It is found in two redactions: The Archival redaction, from the first quarter of the 16th century and now in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Documents (RGADA) (Fond 181, ...
and the latter is thought to have been based on the former.See the entry on the L'vov Chronicle in Ia. S. Lur'e, ed., ''Slovar' knizhnikov i knizhnostei drevnei Rusi'', available online at http://lib.pushkinskijdom.ru/Default.aspx?tabid=4283
See also
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Rus' chronicle
The Rus' chronicles, Russian chronicles or Rus' letopis () was the primary Rus' historical literature. Chronicles were composed from the 11th to the 18th centuries, generally written in Old East Slavic (and, later, Ruthenian language, Ruthenian ...
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Chroniclers of Volyn and Ukraine
The ''Chroniclers of Volyn (Volhynia) and Ukraine'' () is a historical work by an unknown author (or several authors), compiled in the first half of the 17th century. It is divided into 12 separate collections of historical records based on Old R ...
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Hustyn Chronicle
The ''Hustyn Chronicle'' is a 17th-century chronicle detailing the history of Ukraine until 1598. It was written in Church Slavonic.
The ''Chronicle'' covers Ukraine's relationship with the Principality of Moscow and the Grand Duchy of Lithuani ...
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Mezhyhirya Chronicle
The ''Mezhyhirya Chronicle'' () is a Ukrainian chronicle from the 17th century, written in Late Ruthenian, also known as early modern Ukrainian. Its author is considered to be Ilya Koshchakivskyi, the abbot of the former Mezhyhirya Monastery, ...
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Ostroh Chronicler
The ''Ostroh Chronicler'' () is a Ukrainian chronicle of the late 30s of the 17th century. The NASU Institute of Ukrainian Language has designated it as a monument of the Ukrainian language (Vasyl Vasylovych NimchukПам'ятки україн ...
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Volyn Short Chronicle
The ''Volyn Short Chronicle'' () is the conventional name of a chronicle that is part of the ''Suprasl Chronicle'' of the early 16th century, found in the Supraśl Orthodox Monastery (Supraśl, now Białystok County in Poland). It is currently kept ...