Primary Chronicle
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The Primary Chronicle, shortened from the common Russian Primary Chronicle, is a chronicle of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110. It is believed to have been originally compiled in the Kiev area in th
Sheet from Radziwiłł Chronicle
The Historian Nestor by Leo Mol
The baptism of Prince Vladimir I in Korsun in 988 (from the Radziwiłł Chronicle)
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Nestor the Chronicler
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Nestor the Chronicler was a monk of the Monastery of the Caves in Kiev and a prominent author in Kievan Rus'. He is firmly credited with writing two major hagiographies: the Life of the Venerable Theo
Primary Chronicle
…from about 850 to 1110. It is believed to have been originally compiled in the Kiev area in the 1110s. Tradition ascribed its compilation to the monk Nestor (Nestor's Chronicle) beginning in the 12th century, but this is no longer believed to have been the case. The title of the work, Povest' vremennykh let…
Soviet forensic facial reconstruction by Sergei Nikitin (1985)
Nestor commemorated on a 1956 Soviet stamp
Depiction of Nestor the Chronicler by Viktor Vasnetsov, 1919