Ukrainian documenting the period of Kievan Rus by annalistic source
The tradition of the chronicle was formed in Kiev in the X century, but subsequently has spread to virtually all the land of Russia. Later Chronicles United in the vaults. The Ipatskiv Chronicle code is known from 1425, It consists of three parts: the «Tale of bygone years», the Kiev Chronicle, the Galicia-Volyn Chronicle. The events presented in them, geographically and chronologically correspond to the territorial boundaries and historical periods of existence of the South-Western lands of the Russian state. Documentation analysis greatest distribution in the Movement acquired managerial documents: princely ratification: statutes and lessons that recorded the internal government regulations and legal regulation of the relations between the representatives of the dynasty, the boyar-tops and other social layers of the population of Russia, distribution and redistribution of land between the principalities of princely gifts of land vassals for service and monasteries, wills princes, the quantity and quality of tribute and taxes, etc. Documents of economic destination Rus presented in the Ipatskiv Chronicle arch mention of the large quantity of «title deeds», «state», «in his will» letters, made up of two centuries of different layers of population. Local documents can be considered internal correspondence and ratification of an independent Principality and the Principality at the parish. Regional documents were agreements between the princes, including regarding the division of territories. National documents of ratification, which regulated the functioning of the state and, first of all, with military Affairs, law, monetary and fiscal systems of the Church. Foreign or foreign documents are international treaties of Russia. The Ipatskiv Chronicle code in documents recorded unique information about all important aspects of the political, economic, international and cultural life of the old Russian state at all stages of its development.