Nesvizh Castle in the context of "Radziwiłł Chronicle"

The Radziwiłł Chronicle, also known as the Königsberg Chronicle, is a 15th-century collection of illuminated manuscripts, believed to be a copy of a 13th-century original. Its name derives from the Radziwiłł family of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (later the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth), who kept the manuscript in their Nesvizh Castle during the 17th and 18th centuries. The Radziwiłł manuscript was removed from Königsberg in 1761 and acquired by the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg, where it is currently preserved under the registration number 34.5.30. The chronicle recounts the history of Kievan Rus' and its neighbours from the 5th century to the early 13th century in pictorial form, illustrating the narrative with more than 600 colour miniatures. Among East Slavic chronicles, the Radziwiłł Chronicle is distinguished by the richness and quantity of its illustrations, which may ultimately derive from the 13th-century prototype.