{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2023}} {{use British English|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox book series | name = Complete Collection of Russian / Rus' Chronicles | image = Nikon letopis 1.jpg | image_caption = | books = | author = Archaeographic Commission | title_orig = Полное собрание русских летописей | translator = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = Russian Empire<br />Soviet Union<br />Russian Federation | language = Old Church Slavonic, Old East Slavic, Ruthenian, Russian (rarely: Polish and Latin) | genre = textual criticism of Rus' chronicles | publisher = Typographies of Edward Prats, Skorokhodov, and Aleksandrov; Nauka & USSR Academy of Sciences Publishing House | pub_date = 1841 – | english_pub_date = | media_type = | number_of_books = 46 volumes | list_books = | preceded by = | followed by = }}
The '''''Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles''''' or '''''Complete Collection of Rus' Chronicles'''''<ref>{{cite book |title=The New Review |publisher=A. Pidhainy. |date=1970 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s1ggAAAAMAAJ |access-date=15 August 2025 |page=78 |quote=...the complete collection of Rus' chronicles, Polnoe sobranie russkikh letopisei.}}</ref><ref name="Gilbert">{{cite book |last=Gilbert |first=George |title=Reading Russian Sources: A Student's Guide to Text and Visual Sources from Russian History |publisher=Routledge |date=20 January 2020 |isbn=978-1-351-18415-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TzDLDwAAQBAJ |access-date=15 August 2025 |page=11 |quote=Serious study and publication of the chronicles began in the eighteenth century, but the standard modern editions are published in the Polnoe sobranie russkikh letopisei (''Complete Collection of Rus Chronicles'').}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Biran |first1=Michal |last2=Kim |first2=Hodong |title=The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire 2 Volumes |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=17 August 2023 |isbn=978-1-009-30197-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A87eEAAAQBAJ |access-date=15 August 2025 |page=1615 |quote=''Polnoe sobranie russkikh letopisei'' (Complete Collection of Rus' Chronicles, ''PSRL'').}}</ref> ({{Langx|ru|Полное собрание русских летописей|translit=Polnoe sobranie russkikh letopisei{{sfn|Ostrowski|1981|p=12}}{{sfn|Kloss|2007|p=144}}}}, abbreviated '''PSRL'''{{sfn|Ostrowski|1981|p=12}}{{sfn|Kloss|2007|p=144}}) is a series of critical editions of all medieval and early modern Rus' chronicles, published for the purpose of textual criticism (also known as "textology"). Dozens of volumes have been published in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation. The project is ongoing and far from finished.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}
== Development == The chronicles were assembled by the Archaeographic Expedition of the Russian Academy of Sciences (starting in 1828). They were prepared for publication by the Archaeographic Commission, established in 1834 as part of the Ministry of National Enlightenment. The first volumes were published by a publisher "Typography of Edward Prats". The commission was charged to publish the collection on 18 February 1837.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}
The first ten volumes appeared between 1841 and 1863. New volumes have been brought forth piecemeal throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries. Some of the older volumes have also been reprinted, especially after 1997.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}} The PSRL has set the standard for modern critical editions of Rus' chronicles.<ref name="Gilbert"/>
In 1977, Ludolf Müller discovered that thousands of textual variants in the ''Radziwiłł Chronicle'' and ''Academic Chronicle'' were not reported, or reported incorrectly, in Volume 1 of the PSRL.{{sfn|Ostrowski|1981|p=14}}
==List of published volumes== ;Abbreviations * "М." = Moscow * "СПБ (SPB)" = Saint Petersburg * "Л.(L.)" = Leningrad * "Т. (Tom)" = Volume
===Typography of Edward Prats=== * Volume 1. ''Laurentian Codex'' and ''Trinity Chronicle''. Saint Petersburg, 1846{{sfn|Ostrowski|1981|p=12}} * Volume 2. ''Hypatian Codex.'' Saint Petersburg, 1843{{sfn|Ostrowski|1981|p=12}} (included also ''Hustyn Chronicle'') * Volume 3. ''Novgorod First Chronicle.'' Saint Petersburg, 1841 * Volume 4. ''Chronicles of Novgorod and Pskov.'' Saint Petersburg, 1848 * Volume 5. ''Chronicles of Pskov and Sophia.'' Saint Petersburg, 1851 * Volume 6. ''Sofia Chronicle.'' Saint Petersburg, 1853 * Volume 7. ''Chronicle of Resurrection List.'' Saint Petersburg, 1856 * Volume 8. ''Continuation of the Resurrection List Chronicle.'' Saint Petersburg, 1859 * Volume 9. ''Chronicles collection named as Patriarchal or Nikon Chronicle.'' Saint Petersburg, 1862 * Volume 15. Saint Petersburg, 1863{{sfn|Kloss|2007|p=146}} * Volume 16. ''Chronicle of Avraamka'' / Vilnius Manuscript. Saint Petersburg, 1889 * Number of indices (1868–1907)
In 1871–72 the first two volumes were republished as the second editions.
===Typography of Skorokhodov and Typography of Aleksandrov=== * {{Cite book |editor-last1=Shakhmatov |editor-first1=Aleksey Aleksandrovich |editor-last2=Ptaszycki |editor-first2=Stanisław |date=1907 |volume=17 |script-title=ru: Западнорусские летописи |title=Zapadnorusskie letopisi |trans-title=Western Rus' Chronicles |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Полное_собрание_русских_летописей_17_РГБ.pdf |series=Complete Collection of Rus' Chronicles (PSRL) |location=Saint Petersburg |publisher=Typography of Aleksandrov |language=be, ru, uk}} (in Volume 32 and 35 rebranded ''Belarusian-Lithuanian Chronicles''). * {{Cite book |editor-last=Shakhmatov |editor-first=Aleksey Aleksandrovich |date=1908 |title=Ipat'evskaya letopis' |trans-title=The Hypatian Codex |script-title=ru: Ипатьевская лѣтопись |series=Complete Collection of Rus' Chronicles (PSRL) |volume=2 |edition=3rd |url=http://litopys.org.ua/ipatlet/ipat.htm |location=Saint Petersburg |publisher=Typography of M. A. Aleksandrov / Izbornyk |pages= |access-date=18 July 2024 |language=cu}}{{sfn|Ostrowski|1981|p=13}}{{sfn|Kloss|2007|p=144}}
=== Nauka & USSR Academy of Sciences Publishing House === * {{Cite book |url=http://litopys.org.ua/lavrlet/lavr.htm |title=Лаврентьевская летопись |trans-title=Laurentian Chronicle |series=Полное Собрание Русских Литописей [Complete Collection of Russian chronicles] |volume=1 |publisher=Academy of Science (SSSR) |place=Leningrad |date=1926–1928 |pages=}}{{sfn|Ostrowski|1981|p=13}} * {{Cite web |url=http://litopys.org.ua/novglet/novg.htm |title=Новгородская Первая Летопись Старшего Извода (синодальный Список). |trans-title=Novgorod First Chronicle of the Older Edition (Synodal Scroll). |author=Izbornyk |work=Izbornyk |location=Moscow / Leningrad |publisher=Academy of Sciences of the USSR |date=1950 |access-date=19 July 2024 |language=cu}} * {{cite book |last=Nasonov |first=A. N. |title=Полное собрание русских летописей. Том 5. Выпуск 2. Псковские летописи |trans-title=Complete Collection of Rus' Chronicles. Volume 5. Issue 2. Pskov Chronicles |location=Moscow, Leningrad |publisher=USSR Academy of Sciences Publishing House |year=1955 |pages=365 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cLAoAgAAQBAJ |language=ru |access-date=17 September 2024}} (Nasonov published his first edition of the ''First Chronicle'' in 1941. 2013 reprint as {{isbn|978-5-457-50387-8}}). * Volume 32. ''Belarusian-Lithuanian Chronicles''. Leningrad, 1975. Mikałaj Ułaščyk (ed.). * Volume 35. ''Belarusian-Lithuanian Chronicles''. Leningrad, 1980. Mikałaj Ułaščyk (ed.). * Volume 41 : [http://resource.history.org.ua/item/0006591 Летописец Переяславля Суздальского (Летописец русских царей)] / Сост. С. Н. Кистерев, Б. М. Клосс (Boris Kloss), Л. А. Тимошина, И. А. Тихонюк. М. : Археографический центр, 1995. — 184 с. Полное собрание русских летописей. Електронна бібліотека. (''Chronicler of Pereyaslavl-Suzdal'', LPS). * Volume 46. 2018.
== References == {{Reflist}}
== Bibliography == * {{Cite journal |last1=Kloss |first1=Boris |authorlink1=Boris Kloss |translator-last1=DiMauro |translator-first1=Giorgio |date=2007 |title=Copies of the Hypatian Chronicle and Their Textology |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41304504 |journal=Harvard Ukrainian Studies |publisher=Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=129–147 |doi= |jstor=41304504 |access-date=23 May 2023}} * {{Cite journal |last=Ostrowski |first=Donald |date=March 1981 |title=Textual Criticism and the Povest' vremennykh let: Some Theoretical Considerations |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41035890 |journal=Harvard Ukrainian Studies |publisher=Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute |volume=5 |issue=1 |pages=11–31 |doi= |jstor=41035890 |access-date=6 May 2023}}
== External links == * [http://psrl.csu.ru/indexs/index_tom.shtml Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles] {{in lang|ru}}
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