Lvov Chronicle
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The Lvov Chronicle is a Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n chronicle from the sixteenth century that was originally published in the eighteenth century by Nikolay Lvov
Nikolay Lvov
Nikolay Aleksandrovich Lvov was a Russian artist of the Age of Enlightenment. Lvov, an amateur of Rurikid lineage, was a polymath who contributed to geology, history, graphic arts and poetry, but is known primarily as an architect and ethnographer, compiler of the first significant collection of...

, for whom it is named.

The Etterov Copy of the Lvov Chronicle (GPB F.IV.144) is stored in the Russian State Library
Russian State Library
The Russian State Library is the national library of Russia, located in Moscow. It is the largest in the country and the third largest in the world for its collection of books . It was named the V. I...

 (formerly the Lenin State Library of the Soviet Union). It was published in volume 20 of the Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles (St. Petersburg, 1910-1914).

The Lvov Chronicle is very similar to the Sofia Second Chronicle
Sofia Second Chronicle
The Sofia Second Chronicle is a Russian chronicle from the 16th century. It is found in two redactions: The Archival redaction, from the first quarter of the 16th century and now in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Documents The Sofia Second Chronicle is a Russian chronicle from the 16th...

and the latter is thought to have been based on the former.
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