[Footnote 45: My knowledge of these annals is drawn from M.
Leveque, Histoire de Russie. Nestor, the first and best of
these ancient annalists, was a monk of Kiow, who died in the
beginning of the xiith century; but his Chronicle was
obscure, till it was published at Petersburgh, 1767, in 4to.
Leveque, Hist. de Russie, tom. i. p. xvi. Coxe's Travels,
vol. ii. p. 184.
Note: The late M. Schlozer has translated and added a
commentary to the Annals of Nestor;" and his work is the
mine from which henceforth the history of the North must be
drawn. - G.]