Commemoration book of The Cathedral of the Assumption of Moscow Kremlin

In the ancient pergameneous commemoration book of the main church of the Russian state, the Assumption Kremlin Cathedral, there is a brief listing of the names of the soldiers who fell in the battle on the river Vozhe in 1378, in the battle on the Kulikovo field in 1380 and during the capture of Moscow by Khan Tokhtamysh in 1382. The first sheets of the Assumption’s commemoration book belong to the end of the XIV century, but the names of those “beaten by Mamay” were recorded later, probably in the 70s of the XV century, during the preparation of “standing on the river Ugra” and overthrowing the Horde yoke.
“BEATEN BY MAMAY. TO PRINCE FYODOR THE BELOZERSKY AND THE SON OF HIM IVAN, CONSTANTIN CONSTANTINOVICH, KILLED BY UNGODLY MAMAY, ETERNAL MEMORY. AND IN THE SAME WARFARE BEATEN SIMEON MICHAILOVICH, NIKULA VASILEVICH, TIMOFEI VASILEVICH VALUEV, ANDREY SERKIZOV, MICHAIL IVANOVICH, LEV IVANOVICH, SEMENOV MELIK AND ALL OF THEIR SQUAD WHO DIED FOR HOLY CHURCH AND FOR THE ORTHODOX FAITH, ETERNAL MEMORY" .
Chronicles and "Legends" brought to us only one hundred and sixty-two names of the participants of the Kulikovo battle. Among them are the names of sixty-four princes, of whom thirty-three, apparently, were killed in the battle. From the boyars and the service class (noblemen), sixty names of the battle participants came down to us, about half fell in battle. According to the chronicle data, on the Kulikovo field "boyars and the elder commanders" of Moscow -forty, thirty Lithuanian and from other Russian principalities about six hundred were killed. Some of these names are also contained in the commemoration book of the Assumption Cathedral.
Commemoration book is a memorial book for recording names of killed for commemorating during the divine service. Commemoration books were usually made in churches, monasteries, peasant’s and duke’s houses and even in tzar’s family. Commemoration books of churches and monasteries contain not only names of the dead, but also records that had a type of chronicle news or even small historical legends.
The commemoration book of the Assumption Cathedral was written on a parchment in the fourth part of the sheet (126 sheets), in velvet red cover, on the front side of which in the XIX century the icon of the Old Testament Trinity in a silver frame was placed. Its features include a difference of material, expressed in thin and in more coarsely made parchment, and in the difference between handwriting and writing methods. The text of the Assumption Commemoration book was first published by N.I. Novikov in 1788 in the "Ancient Russian Vivliophics."
“Ancient Russian Vivliophics” is the first big publication of written sources on the history of Russia, undertaken by N. I. Novikov in 1773-1775 to familiarize the wide audience with the history of Russia. In 10 volumes, various materials were published: letters of great and apanage princes, contractual letters between the Great Novgorod, Tver and Moscow grand princes, spiritual acts, genealogical table of noble boyars, labels of Horde khans to Russian metropolitans, descriptions of embassies and travels in different countries, etc.