Sirenov A.V.

Key words: source study, necropoleis study, study (and publication) of early texts, history of the Old Rus’, history of the Vladimir-Suzdal Rus’, history of the Old Russian culture, Ivan the Terrible period, princely necropolis
The article is devoted to the description of necropoleis of the 11th – 14th cc. in the Russian tradition in the 16th – 17th cc. There are over ten descriptions of Old Russian necropoleis (in Moscow, Novgorod, Vladimir, Ryazan, Pskov, Nizhny Novgorod, Tver) in manuscripts of the 17th – 18th cc. However, the author is of the opinion that the tradition began in the middle of the 16th c. The author connects it with the foreign policy of Ivan the Terrible.