The Primary Chronicle, shortened from the common Russian Primary Chronicle (Church Slavonic: Повѣсть времѧньныхъ лѣтъ, romanized: Pověstĭ vremęnĭnyxŭ lětŭ...

Peninsula in the east, uniting the East Slavic tribes. According to the Primary Chronicle, the first ruler to unite East Slavic lands into what would become...

The Rus' chronicle, Russian chronicle: 51  or Rus' letopis (Old East Slavic: лѣтопись, romanized: lětopisʹ) was the primary Rus' historical literature...

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chronology. Primary Chronicle entry for 968 Cross and Sherbowitz-Wetzor, Primary Chronicle, p. 84. Cross and Sherbowitz-Wetzor, Primary Chronicle, p. 84....

According to the Primary Chronicle, the fleet of Rus' under Oleg of Kiev carried out a military strike against Byzantium in 907, landing a huge army landed...

seem to have entailed no lasting consequences, since the Russian Primary Chronicle and other Slavonic sources describe the tenth-century Rus' as still...

and laid the foundations of the Kievan Rus' state. According to the Primary Chronicle, he succeeded his "kinsman" Rurik as ruler of Novgorod, and subdued...

could be as early as 890 AD and as late as 925 AD. According to the Primary Chronicle, Olga was of Varangian (Viking) origin and was born in Pleskov. Little...

Varangians (Varyags, in Old East Slavic) are first mentioned by the Primary Chronicle as having exacted tribute from the Slavic and Finnic tribes in 859...

historian Saxo Grammaticus – and few mentions in the Primary Chronicle compiled in Kievan Rus', the Chronicle of Henry is the oldest known written document about...

infant. According to the Primary Chronicle, Rurik was succeeded by Oleg, who ruled as regent and was described by the chronicler as being "of his kin"....

tradition, was invited to reign in Novgorod in the year 862. The Primary Chronicle states that Rurik was succeeded by his kinsman Oleg who was regent...

Kievan Chronicle or Kyivan Chronicle is a chronicle of Kievan Rus'. It was written around 1200 in Vydubychi Monastery as a continuation of the Primary Chronicle...

goddesses. The gods of the Slavs are known primarily from a small number of chronicles and letopises, or not very accurate Christian sermons against paganism...

attributed to him the Primary Chronicle (PVL), the most revered chronicle of Kievan Rus', which earned him the nickname "the Chronicler". But several modern...

Norse; died in 882), mentioned in both the Primary Chronicle, the Novgorod First Chronicle, and the Nikon Chronicle, were the earliest known rulers of Kiev...

by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.[citation needed] Rus' chronicles such as the Primary Chronicle are inconsistent in applying the title "grand prince" to...

Textual criticism or textology of the Primary Chronicle or Tale of Bygone Years (Old East Slavic: Повѣсть времѧньныхъ лѣтъ, romanized: Pověstĭ vremęnĭnyxŭ...

formed the Byzantine Varangian Guard. According to the 12th-century Primary Chronicle, a group of Varangians known as the Rus' settled in Novgorod in 862...

known manuscript of a major Old East Slavic chronicle, predating the Laurentian Codex of the Primary Chronicle by almost a century. In the 14th century,...

and attributed to Jacob the Monk and to Nestor the Chronicler. With the so-called Primary Chronicle, also attributed to Nestor, begins the long series...

Lyubech—writes that his baptismal name was Nicholas. The Russian Primary Chronicle writes that Sviatoslav was staying "at Vladimir" in Volhynia around...

[citation needed] The Radziwiłł Chronicle (Rad.) has the following textual structure: a copy of the Primary Chronicle (Povest' vremmenykh let' (PVL),...

Varangians in the Primary Chronicle is a later addition that probably first appeared in the First Corpus of the 1190s. The chronicle entry itself was based...

agree that the Pechenegs belonged to the Turkic peoples. The Russian Primary Chronicle stated that the "Torkmens, Pechenegs, Torks, and Polovcians" descended...

as attested in the Primary Chronicle and Novgorod First Chronicle, are tenuous at best; in all other cases, these two chronicles base any particular...

also known as Ragnhild (Ragnheiðr), is a person mentioned in the Primary Chronicle as having been a princess of Polotsk, the daughter of Rogvolod (Ragnvald)...

frequently mentioned Slavic god, after Perun. He first appears in the Primary Chronicle letopis along with other gods to whom Vladimir the Great erected statues:...

romanized: Lybid'; Russian: Лыбедь, romanized: Lybed') —who, according to the Primary Chronicle, founded the city of Kiev (modern Kyiv), which eventually became the...