THE ADVENT OF “THE TALE OF BYGONE YEARS”
"The Tale of Bygone Years" is the oldest chronicle that has been preserved. Along with such prominent Ancient Rus literary works as "The Song of Igor's Campaign" and "The Sermon on Law and Grace," "The Tale of Bygone Years" and a number of other less famous chronicles, takes an important place in the history of our country.
The chronicles were called after the first introductory sentence which speaks to us from the hoary antiquity,
"This tale of bygone years, of the origins of the Russian land —"
In the scientific community there have long been arguments regarding the circumstances of the commencement of writing the primary chronicle in Kyivan Rus, and also regarding the content of the first chronicles. The statements of some Soviet time researc
