# Hustyn Chronicle
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The '''''Hustyn Chronicle''''' ({{langx|uk|Густинський літопис|Hustynsjkyj litopys}}) is a 17th-century [chronicle](/source/chronicle) detailing the [history of Ukraine](/source/history_of_Ukraine) until 1598. It was written in [Church Slavonic](/source/Church_Slavonic).[{{cite web |title=George A. Perfecky |url=https://www.lasalle.edu/magazine/story/george-a-perfecky-m-a-98-ph-d-foreign-languages-professor/ |website=La Salle Magazine |publisher=[La Salle University](/source/La_Salle_University) |access-date=5 March 2022}}]
The ''Chronicle'' covers Ukraine's relationship with the [Principality of Moscow](/source/Principality_of_Moscow) and the [Grand Duchy of Lithuania](/source/Grand_Duchy_of_Lithuania), the impact of the [Turks](/source/Ottoman_wars_in_Europe) and [Tatars](/source/Tatars), and the origin of the [Cossacks](/source/Cossacks). It ends with the introduction of the [Gregorian calendar](/source/Gregorian_calendar) (1582), and the [Union of Brest](/source/Union_of_Brest) (1596).[{{cite web |title=Hustynia Chronicle |url=http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CH%5CU%5CHustyniaChronicle.htm |website=[Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine](/source/Internet_Encyclopedia_of_Ukraine) |publisher=Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies |access-date=24 February 2022}}]
== Textual witnesses ==
The original chronicle has not survived, but three copies of it have been preserved:{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=159}}
* The [Hustyn](/source/Hustynia_Monastery) Copy, copied in 1670 by Hieromonach Mykhailo Losyts'kyi, who called it the "Ruthenian Chronicle".{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=159}} Preserved in the [Russian State Library](/source/Russian_State_Library), manuscripts department, f. 205, no. 118.
* The [Mhar Monastery](/source/Mhar_Monastery) copy{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=159}}
* The Archival copy{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=159}}
== Contents ==
The ''Hustyn Chronicle'' begins with a few references to Bible stories, including the [Genesis flood narrative](/source/Genesis_flood_narrative) and the [Tower of Babel](/source/Tower_of_Babel); thereafter, the legendary founding of [Kyiv](/source/Kyiv) by [Kyi, Shchek and Khoryv](/source/Kyi%2C_Shchek_and_Khoryv) and Lybid' is narrated.{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=160}} This is followed by the history of [Kievan Rus'](/source/Kievan_Rus') by the reigns of princes, with special attention to [Volyn](/source/Volyn)' and [Podolia](/source/Podolia).{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=160}} After that, it becomes a history of the [Ukrainian people](/source/Ukrainian_people) and their relations with neighbouring peoples, such as the Belarusians within the Lithuanian principality, the Tatars and Turks, until the emergence of the [Cossacks](/source/Cossacks).{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=160}} The last date mentioned is 1597.{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=160}}
== Composition ==
thumb|page=7|300px|Fulltext 1670 copy of the ''Hustyn Chronicle'' (click for full PDF).
The ''Hustyn Chronicle'' is largely a copy of the ''[Hypatian Codex](/source/Hypatian_Codex)'', but the last 25 pages are an independent continuation from 1300 to 1597.{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=161}}
The other sources of information have been identified as:
* [Caesar Baronius](/source/Caesar_Baronius) (1538–1607), Italian church historian and Catholic cardinal;{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|pp=160–161}}
* ''An Abridged Course of History'' by Byzantine historian [John Zonaras](/source/John_Zonaras) (12th century);{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=161}}
* Polish historian [Marcin Kromer](/source/Marcin_Kromer) (1512–1589);{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=161}}
* Veronese historian [Alexander Guagnini](/source/Alexander_Guagnini) (1538–1614);{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=161}}
* a ''Chronicle of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania'', probably the ''[Bychowiec Chronicle](/source/Bychowiec_Chronicle)'' (16th century);{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|pp=161–162}}
* the ''[Kyiv Caves Patericon](/source/Kyiv_Caves_Patericon)'' of the [Kyiv Pechersk Lavra](/source/Kyiv_Pechersk_Lavra) (13th century);{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=162}}
* the ''Prologue'' (12th century);{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=162}}
* the ''Palinodiia'' of [Zacharias Kopystensky](/source/Zacharias_Kopystensky) (1621/3).{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=162}}
* material from an unknown source, hypothesised by some scholars such as M. Vozniak (1924) and E.M. Apanovich (1983) to be a now-lost, anonymous ''Ukrainian Authentic Chronicle'' ({{langx|uk|Український вірогідний літопис|translit=Ukrains'kyi virohidnyi litopys}}{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=177}}) or ''Ukrainian Chronicle'' ({{langx|ru|Украинская летопись|translit=Ukrainskaia letopis'}}{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=162}}) covering the years 1512 to 1648.{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|pp=161–162, 177}}
Given the inclusion of material from the ''Palinodiia'', the ''Hustyn Chronicle'' could not have been compiled before 1623.{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=162}} Soviet historian Anatoliy Yershov (1930) concluded that [Zacharias Kopystensky](/source/Zacharias_Kopystensky) (died 1627), the author of the ''Palinodiia'', had probably also written the ''Hustyn Chronicle''.{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=162}}[{{cite book |last1=Velychenko |first1=Stephen |title=National History as Cultural Process: A Survey of the Interpretations of Ukraine's Past in Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian Historical Writing from the Earliest Times to 1914 |date=1992 |publisher=CIUS Press |page=144 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=amcVMnFKvXgC&pg=PA144 |access-date=24 February 2022}}] But American historian George Perfecky (1991) disagreed, because the ''Palinodiia'' and the ''Hustyn Chronicle'' present very different accounts of the [Christianization of Kievan Rus'](/source/Christianization_of_Kievan_Rus'), and therefore were probably not written by the same author.{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|pp=174–177}} Instead, Perfecky built upon previous research which suggested that a now-lost, anonymous ''Ukrainian (Authentic) Chronicle'' covering the years 1512 to 1648 had existed as one of the unaccounted sources;{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=177}} therefore, the ''Hustyn Chronicle'' must have been written after 1648, but before it was copied by Losyts'kyi in 1670.{{sfn|Perfecky|1991|p=177}}
{{Timeline Kievan Chronicle manuscripts}}
==See also==
* [Rus' chronicle](/source/Rus'_chronicle)
* ''[Chroniclers of Volyn and Ukraine](/source/Chroniclers_of_Volyn_and_Ukraine)''
* ''[Eyewitness Chronicle](/source/Eyewitness_Chronicle)''
* ''[Hrabianka Chronicle](/source/Hrabianka_Chronicle)''
* ''[Huklyv Chronicle](/source/Huklyv_Chronicle)''
* ''[Lviv Chronicle](/source/Lviv_Chronicle)''
* ''[Mezhyhirya Chronicle](/source/Mezhyhirya_Chronicle)''
* ''[Ostroh Chronicler](/source/Ostroh_Chronicler)''
* ''[Samiilo Velychko Chronicle](/source/Samiilo_Velychko_Chronicle)''
* ''[Volyn Short Chronicle](/source/Volyn_Short_Chronicle)''
==References==
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== Bibliography ==
* {{Cite book |last1=Luznycky |first1=Gregory |date=1961 |title=Ukrainian Literature Within the Framework of World Literature: A Short Outline of Ukrainian Literature from Renaissance to Romanticism |url=https://diasporiana.org.ua/wp-content/uploads/books/7607/file.pdf |location=Philadelphia |publisher="America" Publishing House |pages=77 |access-date=16 March 2026}}
* {{Cite journal |last1=Perfecky |first=George A. |date=1991 |title=The Christianization of Rus' in the Hustyn Chronicle |url=https://brill.com/previewpdf/journals/css/25/1-4/article-p159_11.xml |journal=Canadian-American Slavic Studies |publisher=Brill |volume=25 |issue=1–4 |pages=159–177 |doi=10.1163/221023991X00119|url-access=subscription }}
* {{Cite book |last1=Tolochko |first1=Oleksiy |authorlink1=Oleksiy Tolochko |date=1996 |chapter=Де було написано Густинський літопис? |trans-chapter=Where was the Hustyn Chronicle written? |title=Історичний збірник: Історія. Історіософія. Джерелознавство. |trans-title=Historical Collection: History. Historiosophy. Source Studies. |publisher=Intel |location=Kyiv |pages=4–20 |isbn=5-7702-1282-9 |language=uk}}
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