ABSTRACT
The Old Russian Chronicles refer to roofing of lead, for example, in 1151 in Novgorod the Archbishop Nifont: "roofed St Sophia with lead".1 In the Fifth Novgorod chronicle this is dated to 1156: "and outside the church was whitewashed with lime and roofed with lead".2 In later, fifteenth-century chronicles, lead plates used in roofing are repeatedly mentioned.
