A rare case of stylistic reworking is the story "In the third Prince the Great went to Smolensk, and Smolensk was taken" (here and further the text is given according to the publication: Russian Chronicles. Ryazan, 1998. Vol. 3), placed under the year 7022 (1514) in the Resurrection Chronicle. The Resurrection Chronicle is the second in volume after the Nikon Chronicle (the end of the 1920s of the XVI century). Its third edition, which has come down to us, was created in 1542-1544, as established by researchers, on the basis of various sources and cannot be fully erected to any of the previous vaults. A significant part of the text of the chronicle consists of military stories, which are most often transferred to it with minimal editorial changes from the Moscow chronicle of the late XV century, and some - from a source similar to the Yermolinsky chronicle, which was created in the XV-XVI centuries. Editorial work was usually limited to the introduction of subheadings, clarifying and sometimes changing the structure of the text, expanding the names of princes, occasionally the chronicler introduced new texts or combined fragments of different chronicle articles from previous collections. The basis of the story "Go to the third prince..." coincides with the text of the Yermolinsky chronicle, created in the XV and completed in the XVI centuries. The title of the story itself indicates a documentary approach and a desire for accuracy, as well as the special importance attached to re- page 77 monitor the results of the hike. The features of the narrative and the ratio of its parts confirm this idea. The first part of the story, which tells about the preparations for the battle, is unusually brief and consists mainly of a list of voivodes with whom Prince Vasily Ivanovich of Moscow went on a campaign. The second part-the actual description of military operations-also occupies a small space, since only the shelling of the city from guns is shown. The images of battle used ... Read more