Suzdalian Chronicle

[4] In its broadest sense, the Suzdalian Chronicle encompasses events from 1111 to 1305, as transmitted in the Laurentian Codex (the oldest surviving copy, dating from 1377, in columns 289–437).

'[18] 'After 1157, there are virtually no correspondences between the Laurentian [Suzdalian] and Hypatian [Kievan] texts, suggesting (although Nasonov stops short of saying this explicitly) that a new, autonomous tradition was initiated in the northeast.

'[16] Soviet historian Yakov Lur'e (1985) theorised about the common source of the Kievan and Suzdalian chronicles for the years 1118–1157: 'Probably, it was not a single document, but a whole group of interconnected southern Rus' svods (Kiev, Pereyaslavl'-Southern) in the 12th–13th centuries.

[5] The Laurentian Codex was not just copied by the Nizhegorod monk Laurentius (commissioned in 1377, either by metropolitan Dionysius of Suzdal,[19] or by prince Dmitry Konstantinovich of Novgorod-Suzdal[20]).

[22] Although he was able to confirm redactional activity in 1185, he found other linguistic divisions that no previous scholar had proposed, and concluded there was no boundary in 1193, but instead a continuous narrative from 1192 to 1203.

[citation needed] The original text on events from 1284 to 1305 was a lost codex compiled for the Grand Prince Mikhail of Tver in 1305, but Laurentius re-edited the presentation of Yuri Vsevolodovich, the founder of Nizhny Novgorod, from positive into a negative, partly rehabilitating the role of Tatars.