Abstract
The main task of the Primary Chronicle (PC) was the inclusion of a new people - baptized Rus' - in the biblical picture of the world. The chronicler's approach was not a “formal” determination of the place of the new people among the descendants of Noah. The chronicler used historical sources to determine the place of pre-Christian Varangian Rus' in the Slavic world (“The Legend of the Translation of Books into the Slovenian Language”), and in the world of Byzantine Christianity (treaties between Rus' and the Greeks). “The Legend” allowed the chronicler to identify the Kyiv Polyane with the Polish Polyane, as heirs of the Cyril and Methodius tradition (Slavic language). The treaties testified to the ancient Slavs' acceptance of writing, the Greeks' acceptance of Russian customs (an oath to the pagan gods), and the Rus' acceptance of Slavic and Christian customs. The completion of these processes was the baptism and formation of Rus' as a new people.
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