The Lviv Chronicle ( uk, Львівський літопис) is a Ruthenian chronicle from the early seventeenth century Halychyna. This chronicle reflects the events in

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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

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, and the

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. It describes such events as the Crimean Tatar raids, imposition of Catholicism in

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clergy and nobility,

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rebellion of 1630s, and the Khmelnytsky Uprising (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. The manuscript of the Chronicle was kept at the Stauropegion Institute and is now stored in the Central Scientific Library of the

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.АРХІВНА І БІБЛІОГРАФІЧНА ДОВІДКА ПРО ЛЬВІВСЬКИЙ ЛІТОПИС І ОСТРОЗЬКИЙ ЛІТОПИСЕЦЬ
It was first published in

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 Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukrain ...

in the 1870s. The Etterov copy of the Lviv Chronicle (GPB F.IV.144) is stored in the

Russian State Library The Russian State Library (russian: Российская государственная библиотека, Rossiyskaya gosudarstvennaya biblioteka) is one of the three national libraries of Russia, located in Moscow. It is the largest librar ...

. The Lviv Chronicle is very similar to the Sofia Second Chronicle 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

References

Sources

* Гайдай Л. Історія України в особах, термінах, назвах і поняттях. — Луцьк: Вежа, 2000. *
Довідник з історії України. За ред. І. Підкови та Р. Шуста. — К.: Генеза, 1993.
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