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REVIEW ARTICLES/CRITIQUES EXHAUSTIFS DANIEL CLARKE WAUGH (Seattle, U.S.A.) A Brilliant Book for the Study of Muscovite History B. M. Kloss.Nikonovskii svod i russkie letopisi XVI-XVII vekov. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo "Nauka," 1980. 312 pp. 1 ruble, 70 kopecks. In November 1971, Boris Mikhailovich Kloss delivered three papers in Leningrad in connection with his work on the Nikon Chronicle (Nikonovskaia letopis'-hereafter NikL). After one of these papers, an eminent specialist on Russian chronicles arose to indicate his pleasure that a young man such as Kloss had chosen such an important and massive topic, for to study properly NikL was to make a lifetime commitment. In fact, we have not had to wait a lifetime for the most important results of Kloss's study, which are offered in the book under review. We may well wait another generation though to see the appearance of a book as significant and as well done as Kloss's study. NikL is a massive Muscovite historical compilation which served as a source far many subsequent chronicles in the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- turies. As with so many of the other important sources for the history of medieval Russia, its first use by historians in modern times was by
Russian History – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1982
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