Kievan Chronicle

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The Kievan Chronicle[a] is an Old East Slavic chronicle of Kievan Rus'. It was written around 1200 in Vydubychi monastery as a continuation of the Primary Chronicle. It is known from a single copy in the 15th-century Hypatian Codex, where it is sandwiched between the Primary Chronicle and the Galician–Volhynian Chronicle. It covers the period from 1118, where the Primary Chronicle ends, until 1200, although its final entry is misdated to 1199. A final short notice mentions the start of the reign of Roman the Great as "autocrat of all Russia" in 1201.[1]

Among the sources used by the anonymous chronicler were a chronicle of the city of Pereyaslavl, house chronicles of the Rurikid dynasty (specifically of Rurik Rostislavich, Igor and Oleg Svyatoslavich, and ) and a chronicle of Pechersk monastery. There is evidence that a redactor added material from the Galician–Volhynian Chronicle in the 13th century. Because its sources, save for the monastic chronicle, are secular and were probably not written by monks, the Kievan Chronicle is a politico-military history of the disintegration of Kievan Rus'.[1] It contains a historiographical account of the events celebrated in the epic Tale of Igor’s Campaign, in which the basic sequence of events is the same.[2] It also contains a passion narrative of the martyrdom of the prince Igor Olgovich in 1147.[3]

The Kievan Chronicle contains references to the fall of Jerusalem in 1187 and the death of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa on the Third Crusade in 1190, considering the former—and the failure of the crusade—divine punishment for sin and the latter a martyrdom.[4]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Russian: Киевская летопись, romanized: Kievskaya letopis; Ukrainian: Київський літопис, romanized: Kyivskyi litopys

References[]

  1. ^ a b Lisa Lynn Heinrich, The Kievan Chronicle: A Translation and Commentary, PhD diss. (Vanderbilt University, 1977), pp. ii–viii. ProQuest 7812419
  2. ^ Jostein Børtnes, "The Literature of Old Russia, 988–1730", in Charles Moser (ed.), The Cambridge History of Russian Literature (Cambridge University Press, 1989), p. 17.
  3. ^ Børtnes (1989), p. 21.
  4. ^ Mari H. Isoaho, "Battle for Jerusalem in Kievan Rus': Igor's Campaign (1185) and the Battle of Hattin (1187)", Palaeoslavica 25.2 (2017): 38–62.
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