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Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles
Author	Archaeographical Commission
Original title	Полное собрание русских летописей
Country	Russian Empire; Soviet Union
Language	Russian
Genre	history
Publisher	Typography of Edward Prats
Published	1841 –
No. of books	43 volumes

The Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles (Russian: Полное собрание русских летописей, romanized: Polnoe sobranie russkikh letopisei^[1]^[2], abbr. PSRL^[1]^[2]) is a series of published volumes aimed at collecting all medieval East Slavic chronicles, with various editions published in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and Russian Federation. The project is ongoing and far from finished.

The chronicles were assembled by the Archaeographical Expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences (starting in 1828). They were prepared for publication by the Archaeographical Commission, established in 1834 as part of the Ministry of National Enlightenment. The first volumes were published by a publisher "Typography of Edward Prats". The commission was charged to publish the collection on February 18, 1837.

The first ten volumes appeared between 1841 and 1863. New volumes have been brought forth piecemeal throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries. Some of the older volumes have also been reprinted, especially after 1997.

In 1977, Ludolf Müller discovered that thousands of textual variants in the Radziwiłł Chronicle and Academic Chronicle were not reported, or reported incorrectly, in Volume 1 of the PSRL.^[3]

List of published volumes

Abbreviations

"М." = Moscow
"СПБ (SPB)" = Saint Petersburg
"Л.(L.)" = Leningrad
"Т. (Tom)" = Volume

Typography of Edward Prats

Volume 1. Laurentian Codex and Trinity Chronicle. Saint Petersburg, 1846^[1]
Volume 2. Hypatian Codex. Saint Petersburg, 1843^[1] (included also Hustyn Chronicle)
Volume 3. Novgorod First Chronicle. Saint Petersburg, 1841
Volume 4. Chronicles of Novgorod and Pskov. Saint Petersburg, 1848
Volume 5. Chronicles of Pskov and Sophia. Saint Petersburg, 1851
Volume 6. Sofia Chronicle. Saint Petersburg, 1853
Volume 7. Chronicle of Resurrection List. Saint Petersburg, 1856
Volume 8. Continuation of the Resurrection List Chronicle. Saint Petersburg, 1859
Volume 9. Chronicles collection named as Patriarchal or Nikon Chronicle. Saint Petersburg, 1862
Volume 15. Saint Petersburg, 1863^[4]
Number of indices (1868–1907)

In 1871–72 the first two volumes were republished as the second editions.

Typography of Skorokhodov and Typography of Aleksandrov

Shakhmatov, Aleksey Aleksandrovich, ed. (1908). Ipat'evskaya letopis' Ипатьевская лѣтопись [The Hypatian Codex]. Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles (PSRL) (in Church Slavic). Vol. 2 (3rd ed.). Saint Petersburg: Typography of M. A. Aleksandrov / Izbornyk. Retrieved 18 July 2024.^[5]^[2]

Nauka & USSR Academy of Sciences Publishing House

Лаврентьевская летопись [Laurentian Chronicle]. Полное Собрание Русских Литописей [Complete Collection of Russian chronicles]. Vol. 1. Leningrad: Academy of Science (SSSR). 1926–1928.^[5]
Izbornyk (1950). "Новгородская Первая Летопись Старшего Извода (синодальный Список)" [Novgorod First Chronicle of the Older Edition (Synodal Scroll).]. Izbornyk (in Church Slavic). Moscow / Leningrad: Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
Nasonov, A. N. (1955). Полное собрание русских летописей. Том 5. Выпуск 2. Псковские летописи [Complete Collection of Rus' Chronicles. Volume 5. Issue 2. Pskov Chronicles] (in Russian). Moscow, Leningrad: USSR Academy of Sciences Publishing House. p. 365. ISBN 978-5-457-50387-8. Retrieved 17 September 2024. (Nasonov published his first edition of the First Chronicle in 1941).
Volume 41 : Летописец Переяславля Суздальского (Летописец русских царей) / Сост. С. Н. Кистерев, Б. М. Клосс, Л. А. Тимошина, И. А. Тихонюк. М. : Археографический центр, 1995. — 184 с. Полное собрание русских летописей. Електронна бібліотека. (Chronicler of Pereyaslavl-Suzdal, LPS).

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Ostrowski 1981, p. 12.
^ ^a ^b ^c Kloss 2007, p. 144.
^ Ostrowski 1981, p. 14.
^ Kloss 2007, p. 146.
^ ^a ^b Ostrowski 1981, p. 13.

Bibliography

Kloss, Boris (2007). "Copies of the Hypatian Chronicle and Their Textology". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 29 (1). Translated by DiMauro, Giorgio. Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute: 129–147. JSTOR 41304504. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
Ostrowski, Donald (March 1981). "Textual Criticism and the Povest' vremennykh let: Some Theoretical Considerations". Harvard Ukrainian Studies. 5 (1). Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute: 11–31. JSTOR 41035890. Retrieved 6 May 2023.