Kievan Rus
Kievan Rusʹ, also known as Kyivan Rusʹ ( orv, , Rusĭ, or , , ; Old Norse: ''Garðaríki''), was a state in Eastern and Northern Europe from the late 9th to the mid-13th century.John Channon & Robert Hudson, ''Penguin Historical Atlas of ...
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
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,
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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Khmelnytsky Uprising
The Khmelnytsky Uprising,; in Ukraine known as Khmelʹnychchyna or uk, повстання Богдана Хмельницького; lt, Chmelnickio sukilimas; Belarusian language, Belarusian: Паўстанне Багдана Хмяльніц ...
(1648—1654). It mentions a number of unique facts 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 ( uk, Дени́с Іва́нович Зубри́цький, ; 1777 – January 16, 1862), was the first Ukrainian historian in Galicia and a major early figure in the Galician Russophile movement.Stauropegion Institute and is now stored in the Central Scientific Library of the
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU; uk, Національна академія наук України, ''Natsional’na akademiya nauk Ukrayiny'', abbr: NAN Ukraine) is a self-governing state-funded organization in Ukraine th ...
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
Mikhail Petrovich Pogodin (russian: Михаи́л Петро́вич Пого́дин; , Moscow, Moscow) was a Russian Imperial historian and journalist who, jointly with Nikolay Ustryalov, dominated the national historiography between the death ...
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 18 ...
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