The book examines the centuries-old history of Russian annals; creative techniques of authors and compilers of annals, etc. are analyzed. The second part of the manual publishes the texts of various Russian annals. This textbook part will allow the teacher to acquaint students not only with the texts of the most famous Russian annals, but also to acquaint them with various methods of analyzing annals, as well as with the features of Kyiv, Novgorod, Galician and Moscow annals from the 11th to the 18th centuries. Addressed to university students and everyone interested in Russian history.