{{Short description|15th-century Russian chronicle}} {{Infobox book| | name = Yermolin Chronicle | title_orig = Ермолинская летопись | orig_lang_code = ru | translator = | image = File:Yermolin Chronicle.jpg | caption = | author = | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = Russia | language = | series = | genre = | publisher = | release_date = 15th century | subject = | native_wikisource = | wikisource = | media_type = | pages = | preceded_by = | followed_by = }}
The '''''Yermolin Chronicle''''' (also spelled '''''Ermolin Chronicle'''''; {{langx|ru|Ермолинская летопись}}) is a 15th-century Russian chronicle compiled in Moscow and named for the master builder Vasili Yermolin, whose workshop is credited with initiating the text.<ref name = "Dunpy">{{cite encyclopedia |editor-last=Dunphy |editor-first=Graeme |title=Ermolin Chronicle |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle |publisher=Brill |year=2019 |url=https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/EMCO/SIM-00953.xml }}</ref>
It survives in a single manuscript published in 1910 as volume 23 of the ''Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles'' and is valued for its detailed coverage of Muscovite politics, monastic affairs and architectural practice between roughly 1460 and 1472.<ref name = ":0" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Chronicles |website=Encyclopedia.com |access-date=6 June 2025 |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/literature-and-arts/language-linguistics-and-literary-terms/literature-general/chronicles }}</ref>
==History== Most researchers agree that Yermolin commissioned the compilation and may have inserted notes on stone construction himself, although the precise identity of the scribes remains disputed.<ref name = "Lenhoff">{{cite journal |last=Lenhoff |first=Gail |title=The Ermolin Chronicle Account of Prince Fedor the Black’s Relics and the Annexation of Iaroslavl’ in 1463 |journal=Russian History |year=1992 |volume=19 |issue=1–4 |pages=155–168 |jstor=24657503 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24657503 }}</ref> Internal chronology and linguistic analysis place the work’s completion in the late 1460s or early 1470s, with its last dated entry aligning it closely to the North Russian ''svod'' of 1472.<ref name = "Brumfield">{{cite journal |last=Brumfield |first=William |title=The Italian Renaissance and the Rebuilding of the Moscow Kremlin |journal=Slovo/Word |year=2008 |url=https://www.academia.edu/116458903/THE_ITALIAN_RENAISSANCE_AND_THE_REBUILDING_OF_THE_MOSCOW_KREMLIN }}</ref><ref name = ":0">{{cite book |title=The Yermolin Chronicle. A Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles, Vol. 23 |publisher=Archaeographic Commission |location=St Petersburg |year=1910 |url=https://www.prlib.ru/en/item/437923 }}</ref> The sole codex appears to have been copied at the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery before entering state archives, where the Archaeographic Commission produced the 1910 scholarly edition that underpins modern study.<ref name = ":0" />
Narrative includes a report on the absorption of Yaroslavl in 1463, analysed by Gail Lenhoff as a rare piece of Muscovite propaganda justifying territorial expansion.<ref name = "Lenhoff" /> The chronicle also describes Ivan III's 1471 campaign against Novgorod, a passage recently re-examined for its inflation of troop numbers relative to parallel sources.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Porfiriev |first=A. V. |title=The First Campaign of Ivan III to Novgorod in 1471 |journal=Russian Studies in History |year=2022 |doi=10.1134/S1019331622110089 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1019331622110089 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Unique architectural notices record the installation of Yermolin's polychrome reliefs of Saints George and Demetrius on the Kremlin's Frolov Gate, offering primary evidence for early Muscovite sculpture.<ref name = "Dunpy" />
{{ill|Lev Yure|ru|Лурье, Лев Яковлевич}} highlighted the work's independence from metropolitan compilations, arguing that it reflects the intellectual autonomy of Kirillo-Belozersky scribes during the era of Ivan III's centralising reforms.<ref name = "Brumfield" /> Contemporary scholars continue working on the chronicle for liturgical iconography and genealogical interpolations, confirming its value for cultural and political history.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Efrosin of Kirillov and an Interpolated Princely Genealogy in the ''Zadonshchina'' |journal=Russian History |year=1998 |volume=25 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24664449 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Influences on Iconography in Russian Art |chapter=Visual Culture and Orthodox Tradition |publisher=Brill |year=2024 |url=https://brill.com/display/book/9783657796809/BP000008.xml }}</ref>
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