Researcher of the history and annals of Ancient Russia M.D. Priselkov (1881-1941) was the closest follower of academician A.A. Shakhmatov. Perceiving the textual method of A.A. Shakhmatov and developing it, M.D. Priselkov created the first work in science dedicated to the history of such a peculiar genre of historical storytelling as the annals were. "The History of the Russian Chronicle of the 11th-15th Centuries," published in 1940 as a university course, was equipped with a very modest scientific apparatus. This book has long been a bibliographic rarity. All necessary references to sources and literature are given in this edition; all the latest scientific literature devoted to the issues that are considered in the book of M.D. Priselkova.