New Chronicle

New Chronicle 

a 17th-century chronicle that contains the greatest amount of factual material about the peasant uprising led by I. I. Bolotnikov and gives the official view of the history of Russia in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. The New Chronicle was probably written around 1630 at the court of Patriarch Filaret (Fedor Nikitich Romanov), the father of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov. The chronicle covers events from the end of the reign of Ivan IV the Terrible to 1619, the year Filaret became patriarch. The chronicle was based on many other chronicle accounts and official sources, such as diplomatic reports, various documents, and razriadnye knigi (service registers). The many versions of the chronicle that appeared in the 17th century described events down to 1655, 1659, 1686, and later.

REFERENCE

Cherepnin, L. V. “ ‘Smuta’ i istoriografiia XVII v.” In the collection Istoricheskie zapiski, vol. 14. Moscow, 1945.