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Specification of the Material?, which are to ferve 
for the intended Colleftion. 
I. 
Extracts and Translations of all the Hiftorical Ma- 
nufcripts and Chronicles of Rujfia , as are either al- 
ready extant, or may hereafter be difcovered. 
As for Inftance, out of the Stepennai a Kniga, the 
Chronic on, or Synopfis Kiovienfis , the Chroni- 
cle of the Abbot Theodofius of Kiozv, the 
Chronicle of Barlaam Palizin, fome anony- 
mous Chronicles, ffc. 
II. 
Hiftories of the Lives of the mod celebrated So- 
vereigns of Rujfia , of either Sex, carefully gathered 
from proper Accounts, Printed, as well as Manufcripts. 
For Inftance, the Lives of Ruric , Igor, Olga , 
JVladimir the Great, Wladimir Monomachus , 
Alexander of Neva , and all the other Czars, 
Emperors, and Empreffes, from Ivoan Bafilo- 
witz the Firft, to the prefent Time. 
III. 
Genealogical Accounts and Tables, both ancient 
and modern, of the Family of the Great Dukes, 
Czars, and Emperors of Rujfia. 
For this I have prepared and drawn up twelve 
Tables, reprefenting, moft diftin&ly, the Sue- 
ceffion of the feveral Great Dukes, Czars, and 
Em. 
