Suzdalian Chronicle

The Suzdalian Chronicle (Church Slavonic: Суздальскаѧ Лѣтопись, romanized: Suzdal'skaę Lětopys'; Russian: Суздальская летопись, romanized: Suzdal'skaia letopis'^[1]), also known as the Chronicle of Vladimir-Suzdal,^[2] Suzdal–Vladimirian Chronicle^[3] or Laurentian–Radziwiłł–Academic Chronicle (LRAC),^[1] is a Rus' chronicle. It is one of several continuations of the Primary Chronicle (PVL).

In the strictest sense of the term, Suzdalian Chronicle only means the segment between 1177 and 1203, the preserved source texts of which are very similar in four surviving manuscripts: the Laurentian Codex, the Radziwiłł Chronicle, the Academic Chronicle,^[2] and the Chronicler of Pereyaslavl-Suzdal (LPS).^[4] In its broadest sense, the Suzdalian Chronicle encompasses events from 1111 to 1305, as transmitted in the Laurentian Codex (the oldest surviving copy, dating from 1377, in columns 289–437).^[5] The chronicle is about the late period Kievan Rus', and the Laurentian continuation up to 1305 also includes events of its subsequent Rus' principalities under the early dominion of the Golden Horde. It has a pro-Yurievichi dynastic Tendenz, and a focus on the northeastern principalities of Vladimir-Suzdal, where it was compiled.