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Silvester, father superior of the
Vidubitsky Monastery, wrote the second version of Nestor's Chronicle in 1116,
after Vladimir Monomakh, the new Grand Duke of Kiev, commissioned him to
prepare a new copy of the Chronicle. It was this Silvester's revised edition
that a monk from Suzdal', Lavrenti, had in his hands when he wrote in 1377, the
Chronicle that bears his name. He prepared the so-called "Laurentius
Chronicle," also known as Suzdal's, for Prince Dimitri Konstantinovich who
reigned over Suzdal lands, and updated the compilation of events up to the year
of 1305. The Laurentius Chronicle reached us as did the "Ipatiev
Chronicle," presumably written in 1118, and named after the monastery
where it was found. The Ipatiev Chronicle is considered the third version of
the Nestor's Chronicle and its author is unknown. Vasilii N.Tatishchev,
1686-1750, spent a great deal of his time searching for ancient Russian scripts
in the hope of finding the original manuscript of the first Russian chronicler.
Tatishchev was unsuccessful, but the large research material he collected
helped him write his monumental "Russian History From The Earliest
Days" (until Tsar Mikhail Romanov) in which many important details from
various chronicles appeared for the first time.
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