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Статья // Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique. — Juillet-septembre 1971. — Vol. 12 — N°3 — pp. 286-295.The Povest' vremennykh let is the basic source for Russian history from the tenth to the thirteenth centuries. It was continuously compiled during this period and the entire text was revised and on several occasions. Textual analysis has substantiated these revisions and pointed out the numerous inconsistencies resulting from them. There is no concensus about early forms of the chronicle, or about the revisions, but it is agreed that many of the textual changes were politically motivated. Such alterations often conceal information contained in early versions of the chronicle and are themselves an important source of political attitudes in early Russia. This paper will examine two related passages in the chronicle, demonstrate how they were altered, and discuss the meaning of the alterations.