Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles

Complete Collection of Russian / Rus' Chronicles

AuthorArchaeographic Commission
Original title
Полное собрание русских летописей
CountryRussian Empire
Soviet Union
Russian Federation
LanguageOld Church Slavonic, Old East Slavic, Ruthenian, Russian (rarely: Polish and Latin)
Genretextual criticism of Rus' chronicles
PublisherTypographies of Edward Prats, Skorokhodov, and Aleksandrov; Nauka & USSR Academy of Sciences Publishing House
Published1841 –
No. of books46 volumes

The Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles or Complete Collection of Rus' Chronicles (Russian: Полное собрание русских летописей, romanizedPolnoe sobranie russkikh letopisei, abbreviated PSRL) is a series of critical editions of all medieval and early modern Rus' chronicles, published for the purpose of textual criticism (also known as "textology"). Dozens of volumes have been published in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation. The project is ongoing and far from finished.