Annual and non-Annual Records in the New Chronicler
Saint-Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
For citation: Vovina, Varvara G. Annual and non-Annual Records in the New Chronicler // Graphosphaera. 2024. Vol. 4. № 2. P. 309–320. URL: http://writing.igh.ru/index.php?id=2024-4-2-309-320
DOI: 10.32608/2782-5272-2024-4-2-309-320
Abstract: The article analyzes the New Chronicler (Novyi Letopisets), one of the largest historical works of the 17th century, from the point of view of the presence of annual records in it. The New Chronicler was already not а chronicle in a strict sense. Year dates are present only in the initial and final parts of the text. This is due to the peculiarities of the composition of the New Chronicler, as well as its sources. Calculations show that most of the text, namely the entire narrative about the Smuta (The Time of Troubles) of the early 17th century, is not annalistic, but is divided into chapters arranged chronologically. Although years are not indicated in most of the text, some traces of annual narrative can be observed. These are the initial formulas used in a number of chapters to relate events to those discussed earlier. The entire Smuta ultimately appeared before the reader as a single chain of events following each other in temporal order. The absence of year dates confirms the assumption that not so much written sources as the memories of participants of the Smuta or their relatives were used when composing the New Chronicler.
Key words: New Chronicler, annual dates, archive of the Posolsky Prikaz, Patriarch Filaret
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