Bykhovets Chronicle

Bykhovets Chronicle. One of the most complete Ruthenian-Lithuanian chronicles of the late 16th century. In 1840 the chronicle was in the possession of O. Bykhovets from Vaukavysk, Belarus. The chronicle describes events in the history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the 13th to the early 16th century. It deals with the wars between Lithuania and Poland, the struggle against the Tatars and the Teutonic Knights, and Ukrainian resistance to Lithuanian and Polish domination. The chronicle was published in Polnoe sobranie russkikh letopisei (The Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles, vol 17, 1907).