往年纪事

《往年記事》的內容主要可以簡單分成幾個部分──

• 基輔羅斯的起源
• 羅斯人與希臘人（東羅馬帝國）的關係
• 羅斯公國歸信東正教
• 諸王在羅斯公國的統治 ^[4]

• 王钺，《往年纪事译注》，兰州：甘肃人民出版社，1994，ISBN 7-5421-0273-7
• 王松亭注释，《古史纪年（古俄语-汉语对照）》，北京：商务印书馆，2010，ISBN 978-7-100-06527-6
• [俄]拉夫连季编，朱寰等译，《往年纪事：古罗斯第一部编年史》，北京：商务印书馆，2011，ISBN 978-7-100-05927-5
• [台]陳仁姮 譯注 科技部經典譯注計畫 《往年紀事 勞倫特編年史譯注》 出版年 2016 ISBN 978-957-08-4669-0

原始文献

• From the Laurentian manuscript （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
• From the Hypatian manuscript（页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
• From the Novgorodian manuscript（页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
• A collation of the chronicle by Donald Ostrowski in Cyrillic is available at https://web.archive.org/web/20050309022812/http://hudce7.harvard.edu/~ostrowski/pvl/ together with an erudite and lengthy introduction in English. This is an interlinear collation including the five main manuscript witnesses, as well as a new paradosis, or reconstruction of the original.

英文译本

• The Russian Primary Chronicle, Laurentian Text. Translated and edited by Samuel Hazzard Cross and Olgerd P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor. Cambridge, MA: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1953.
• Excerpts of primary chronicle, including founding of Novgorod by Rus, Attacks on Byzantines, and Conversion of Vladimir. Also mentions several Slavic tribes by name.