Ioachim Chronicle
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The Ioachim Chronicle (ru: Иоакимовская Летопись), also spelled Joachim or Ioakim) is a chronicle discovered by the Russian historian Vasily Tatishchev in the 18th century. The chronicle is believed to be a 17th century compilation of earlier sources describing events in the tenth and eleventh centuries concerning the Novgorod Republic and Kievan Rus.
The original chronicle was lost and the contents are known through Tatischev's "History of Russia"(История Российская),[1] although Tatishchev's historiograph is dubious since his later edition of his history or Russia is much more detailed than his earlier edition and is based on sources no longer, and some say never, extant. Indeed, Tatishchev's sources are so problematic, that Iakov Lur'e wrote of "'Tatishev information' (data found only in that historian."[2] Be that as it may, Tatischev concluded that the chronicle was written by Ioakim Korsunianin, the first bishop of Novgorod the Great (ca. 988-1030). More recent studies indicate that the chronicle was more likely compiled by the Muscovite Patriarch Ioachim (d. 1690).[3]
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- ^ V. I. Tatishchev, Istoriia Rossiskaia (Moscow and Leningrad: AN SSSR, 1962), vol. 1, pp. 107—119.
- ^ Ia. S. Lur'e, "The Problem of Source Criticism (With Reference to Medieval Russian Documents)," Slavic Review Vol. 27, No. 1. (Mar., 1968), pp. 1-22.
- ^ S. K. (Sergei Konstantinovich)Shambinago, “Ioakimovskaia letopis’.” Istoricheskie Zapiski (1947): 254-70; O. Tvorogov, “Ioakim.” In D. S. Likhachev, ed., Slovar’ knizhnikov i knizhnosti drevnei Rusi, 3 Vols. in 5 Pts. (Leningrad and St. Petersburg: Nauk, 1987-1993) Vol. 1 (XI-pervaia polovina XIV vv.). (Leningrad: Nauk, 1987): 204-205.
