The court record of Vsevolod III of Vladimir. For 1199 and 1200 it has Vsevolod's Polovtsian campaign, the building of the Dormition convent at Vladimir by his wife Maria, the sending of his son Sviatoslav to Novgorod, the affairs of Ryazan and Pronsk and Murom, and the princes of the south as seen from the north. It also carries the Vladimir view of Kiev and Chernigov. Partisan for Vsevolod and his house.
About this source
- Title
- Lavrentyevskaya letopis (Laurentian Chronicle)
- Author
- Anonymous
- Author's dates
- chroniclers of Vladimir and Suzdal; copied by the monk Laurentius in 1377
- Written
- the Suzdal continuation kept in the late 12th and 13th centuries; manuscript 1377
- Language
- Old East Slavic
- Covers
- to 1305 (Primary Chronicle to 1110, then the Suzdal chronicle)
- Kind
- Chronicle
Only the Primary Chronicle part (to 1116) has a free English translation (Cross and Sherbowitz-Wetzor 1953, not online in a verified copy); the Suzdal continuation for 1200 is untranslated. The litopys.org.ua text could not be verified. Confirm the larger Internet Archive scan includes the issues beyond 1110 before citing.
Where to read it
Editions
- Polnoe sobranie russkikh letopisey, vol. 1: Lavrentyevskaya letopis, 2nd edition (Leningrad 1926 to 1928); Internet Archive scan labelled volume 1 (contents not itemised on the page)
- The same edition, issue 1 only (Povest vremennykh let, to 1110), at the Internet Archive