Stepennaya Kniga: a step to the origins

N.N. Pokrovskiy, O.D. Zhuravel

In 2007-2008 the two volumes of "The Book of Degrees of the Tsar Genealogy" ("Stepennaya kniga tsarskogo rodosloviya")-the first summarizing work on the Russian history written at the time of Ivan the Terrible-were published. The publication presented the results of the long-term work of a group of scholars headed by Academician N. N. Pokrovskiy (Institute of History SB RAS, Novosibirsk) aimed at revealing and studying the old manuscripts containing the text of The Book of Degrees. The most important one was discovered by N. N. Porkrovskiy in Tomsk. The new edition based on the oldest copies grants access to the very origin of creating of the work that has influenced greatly the Russian historical science

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