Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Littafin ya fara da tarihin asalin da salon rayuwar Slavs kuma ya ƙare da tsakiyar karni na 17 a cikin bugu na farko. Bugawa na biyu da na uku (1678 da 1680) sun ƙare da Kamfen na Chyhyryn
na shekara ta 1677-1678. "Synopsis" ya shafi tarihin Kievan Rus', mamayewar Mongol na Rus', da gwagwarmaya da Tatars na Crimean, Ottoman Turkey, da Poland. Marubucin "Synopsis" ya yi iƙirarin cewa sarakunan Rasha su ne magada na doka na Grand Princes na Kiev. "Synopsis" ya zama abin lura tunda a fili ya nuna cewa ra'ayin haɗa kan dukkan mutanen Slavic na Gabas a ƙarƙashin ikon ƙasa ɗaya ba a haife shi a Moscow ba amma a ƙasashen kudu maso yammacin tsohuwar Kievan Rus' kuma an tsara shi a Kiev. Dalilin aikin shine "samun daidaituwa tsakanin ɗaukaka tsar na Muscovite a gefe guda da kare da'awar Kiev ga ikon a gefe guda". Appendix na "Synopsis" ya ƙunshi jerin sunayen sarakunan Rasha, Voivodes na Poland a Little Russia, Cossack hetmans, da kuma Kiev metropolitans.