As in other cities, where the chronicle was princely, urban, or Vladyka,the chronicle in Pskov in its basic tradition had official significance. Such "chronics" (t.) e. chronicles) served the interests of this principality, the city, the episcopal or metropolitan cathedra; sometimes they were used as an index code or indictment material;1 they sought to confirm the justification of political rights. In 1510. Pskovichi had to answer to the ambassador led. When the prince of Moscow (Tretyaku), when the bell rang in the morning, and the devil led . kn. Moscow Tretyak Dolmatovshol in the eyelids”, then the landowners and pskovichi began to say to him: “Such is our written in L& From his great-grandfather and grandfather and with his father, his cross kissing with the great princes is supposed to be a pskovichamot of the sovereign of his great prince, who will not be in Moscow, and therefore we will not go either to Lithuania or to Germany ;. And we will live in the old-fashioned way [D.T.]....... [ .. "Ancient Pskov news XV in . It is believed to have been recorded in the church of St. Trinity, as well as records borrowed from special reports or references presented at the meeting, like all the most important documents of the city of Pskov, stored in the Lavra of the Church of St. Trinity (see .) Ikonnikov, Experience of Russian. historiogr. , t, II, no. I,str. 799). The oldest extant Pskov chronicles were compiled in the second half of the XV century .. They are already complex monuments, vaults; in them, for example, in addition to local Pskov chronicles, the material of the Novgorod-Sophic vault . is poured in. Pskov chronicles, thus, are connected, as it were, by kinship ties with other Russian chronicles :. in the vast majority of extant Russian chronicles are close to each other by origin, composition, despite the fact that they reflect the diversity of literary and socio-political life along the Eastern European plain from Novgorod and the Middle East. Rostov to Galich and Kiev . The Pskov Chronicles, first of all, of course, are the main foundation material on the history of Pskov, its region. In its content, it directly touches the Pskov land and neighboring countries and, to a lesser extent, other lands of ancient Russia. In either case, he may be interested in the historian Pskov .. In either case, he may be intere-1 Known, e.g.. In 1471, he led. Prince Ivan Vasilievich of Moscow, going on a campaign to Novgorod, took with him the deacon Stepan Borodaty, who knew how to "speak gender" by the Russian: When, he said, they come, and he remembers him speaks against the ignominy of the data which the great prince had forged in ancient times, by his father's house and by his forefather' (see .) PSRL, t. XX, h. 1, p. 282). About different types of Russian chronicles . and . Belyaev, About different types of Russian. The Qur'an (Qur'an) Nasonov, “One-published manuscript of Shakhmatov: Review of the Chronicles” (Problems of Source Studies, II); his, “The Chronicle Monuments of the Tver Principality” (IAN of the USSR, 1930 .) ), n "The Chronicles of the Tver principality" (DAS of the USSR, 1926 . ).