1971 critical edition of the Lviv Chronicle by Oleksandr A. Bevzo
This article is about the 17th-century chronicle from Halych (Galicia). For the 16th-century chronicle discovered by Nikolay Lvov, see Lvov Chronicle (16th century).
The Lviv Chronicle[1] (Ukrainian: Львівський літопис) is a Ruthenian chronicle from Halychyna, written in the early 17th century.
This chronicle reflects the events in post-Kievan Rus' 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, Moscow, and the Crimean Khanate. It describes such events as the Crimean Tatar raids, imposition of Catholicism in Western Ukraine by Uniate clergy and nobility, the Ukrainian Cossack rebellion of the 1630s, and the Khmelnytsky Uprising (1648—1654). It mentions a number of unique stories from Ukrainian history that are not available from any other source.
It was first published in Moscow in 1839 by the Russian historian Mikhail Pogodin and later published in Lviv in the 1870s. The Etterov copy of the Lviv Chronicle (GPB F.IV.144) is stored in the Russian State Library.
The Lviv Chronicle is very similar to the Sofia Second Chronicle and the latter is thought to have been based on the former.[3]
