‘The History of Russian Chronicles of the Eleventh — Fifteenth Centuries’ by M.D. Priselkov was written for the Doctor’s degree in history and published at the Leningrad State University in 1940, as a textbook for students of the Historical Faculty. The data was systematized according the chronological principle and covered the period from the eleventh till the fifteenth century: from the very beginning of Russian chronicles (the first Kievan compilations and the Primary Chronicle) trough the chronicles of Southern Russian, Rostov and Suzdal’ and Vladimir principalities, and the first All-Russian Metropolitan Chronicle compilation. The work was based on the comparative and textology method. That book was of great significance for studying the Lavrentievskaya Chronicle, and for the establishing the idea of parallel princely and metropolitan chronicles; it made a serious influence at the following research works in the field of the history of chronicles as literary and historical monuments.