[1][2] It is currently kept in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (РГАДА/RGADA) in Moscow (ф.
[1] According to Mytsyk (2003), the chronicle was probably created by a priest of the cathedral in Volodymyr in Volyn, who was close to bishop Vassian of Volodymyr.[2][which?]
The author's interests remain squarely focused on what happened in Volhynia and Podolia.
[2] In the second part, the events of 1495 to 1497 stand out: the author used both his own impressions and the testimony of other eyewitnesses to write about the 1495 election of Macarius Chort [ru; uk] as metropolitan of Kiev, Galicia and all Rus', and his subsequent death at the hands of the Tatars in 1497.
[2] The praise to Ostrozhsky in the third part would not have been added until after his victory over the Muscovite troops in the Battle of Orsha (1514).