Kievan Synopsis

The Synopsis, or a Short Collection (Church Slavonic: Cинопсис, или Краткое собрание от различных летописцев о начале славянороссійского народа и первоначалных князех Богоспасаемого града Кіева), also known as the Kievan Synopsis or Kyivan Synopsis, is a Moscow-centric work of history, first published in Kiev (Kyiv) in 1674. Written in a language close to Church Slavonic, it interprets history through a Christian conception of time focused on the narratives of creation, fall, and redemption. It also had a political purpose to justify the Treaty of Pereyaslav, which annexed the Cossack Hetmanate to the Tsardom of Russia, while also claiming a central role for the city of Kiev.

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