Final defeat of Kuchum (1598) in the Siberian annalistic tradition

Many Siberian and all-Russian chronicles mention the final defeat of Kuchum Khan from the unit of service men in the summer of 1598. The chief dyak Savva Esipov gave a rather rhetorical account of these events and most likely through hearsay. Siberian official chroniclers of the mid - 17th century based their reports on the existing article in «Novyj letopisets», edited it and sometimes referred to oral evidence.