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422: 410: 315:, which he called "the Jerusalem of the Hindus". He mentions that he engaged in horse-dealing, although his mercantile activities may have been more extensive than directly stated in his account. He spent almost three years in India, before deciding to return to Russia after concluding that further travel would not make him any great profit and that he could not afford to remain in India. Nikitin also showed a longing to return to his homeland: "May God protect the Russian land! There is no land in the world like it. But why can the princes in the Russian land not live with each other as brothers? May the Russian land be well ordered, because justice there is quite rare". 42: 550: 373:, lifestyles, and natural resources. He describes the appearances of Indians, their clothing and food, interrelations, and so on. Nikitin's notes mention: "the countrymen are very poor, but the boyars are rich and live in luxury". The abundance and trustworthiness of Nikitin's factual material provide a valuable source of information about India at that time, and his remarks on the trade of Hormuz, 1025: 421: 409: 728:
Yakov Lurye writes that Nikitin must have acquired his goods on credit and would have faced enslavement as a debtor if he had returned home empty-handed, thus explaining his decision to continue his journey and seek further trading opportunities. This is disputed by Gail Lenhoff and Janet Martin, who
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to plead for help. His captured companions were rescued by the Shirvanshah, who, however, refused to give him and his companions means to return home. At that point, Nikitin writes, his party dispersed: "Whoever had something left in Rus' returned to Rus'; whoever had debts in Rus' went wherever they
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In 2006, the Indian organization Adventures & Explorers, with the support of the Embassy of India in Moscow and the Tver Regional Administration sponsored a Nikitin Expedition, in which 14 travelers set out from Tver to retrace Nikitin's journey through Russia, the Middle East, and Central Asia
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that there was a statue of Nikitin in Russia when in fact there was not (Nehru had asked if the Russians had honored the first Russian to visit India). So as not to be proven a liar, Khrushchev phoned back to Russia demanding that a statue of Nikitin be built immediately, before Nehru's state visit
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His loss of contact with Christianity and his life among Muslims (and apparent lapse from Christianity and conversion to Islam) bothered him, as he mentioned several times in his account. Indeed, he began his account calling it his "sinful voyage beyond three seas." He went on to explain that he
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The dates of Nikitin's travels have been debated by scholars; it was generally accepted until the 1980s that Nikitin spent the years 1466–1472 in India, when Leonid S. Semyonov challenged these dates and published a book dedicated to Nikitin's travels in 1980. His chronology was accepted in the
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convert would have been persecuted or even put to death in Rus', so if Nikitin had indeed become a Muslim, he would have avoided returning to his country, while in fact he died on his way back in the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania not far from the Muscovite border. However, Lurye
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in the third year of his journey he "shed many tears for the Christian faith". Very near the end of his account, he wrote of his wish to return home and to the Christian faith: "I, Afanasy, a damned servant of Almighty God, Maker of heaven and earth, pondered over the Christian faith, the
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On 17 April 2022, the Kozhikode Corporation paid tribute to Afanasy Nikitin, commemorating the 550th anniversary of his visit to Kozhikode. Moreover, Customs Road in the city was renamed after Nikitin, also establishing a ‘twin city’ status with Tver, the birth place of Nikitin.
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in 1856. In 1978, L. S. Semyonov proposed 1468 as the date of Nikitin's departure from Russia. This later date has been increasingly used as the start of Nikitin's journey. Nikitin's account contains no concrete dates, which makes the precise dating of its events
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was published in its entirety for the first time in 1821. A German translation of Nikitin's notes was also published in 1835 as "Reise nach Indien unternommen von einem Russischen Kaufmann im 15 Jahrhundert" in
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continued to date events by Christian religious holidays and invoked the Mother of God and the saints ("the Holy Fathers"), he could not remember when Christian holidays were and so he could not celebrate
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India in the Fifteenth Century: Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India in the Century Preceding the Portuguese Discovery of the Cape of Good Hope, from Latin, Persian, Russian, and Italian
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filed several reports on the expedition's progress. After reaching India, two members of the expedition set out in March 2007 from Mumbai in SUVs to retrace Nikitin's travels around India itself.
869:, p. 83: "Nikitin left his native town in 1466, as part of a group of merchants whose intention it was to trade with the lands of the Caspian Sea littoral, and to go as far as Shirwan". 244:), then again by Kaitags on the Caspian coast. Niktin's belongings were stolen, and some of his fellow Russian merchants were taken prisoner by the Kaitags. Nikitin went to the 41: 481:
characterizes Nikitin's religious expressions as "the peculiar syncretism of a man who acknowledged any monotheistic faith as 'true', if practiced with a pure heart".
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37, No. 3 (1989):321–344; See also Janet Martin, "Muscovite Travelling Merchants: The Trade with the Muslim East (Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries)."
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writes that he received Nikitin's notes in 1475 and incorporated them into his work but was unable to learn anything more about the traveler.
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In 1955, the local authorities of Tver erected a bronze monument to Afanasy Nikitin on the bank of the Volga River. The sculptor was
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to Russia. The statue was featured on a Russian postage stamp in 2005 commemorating the 75th anniversary of the establishment of
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Maxwell, M. J. (September 2006). "Afanasii Nikitin: An Orthodox Russian's Spiritual Voyage in the Dar al-Islam, 1468-1475".
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Gail Lenhoffand Janet Martin "The Commercial and Cultural Context of Afanasij Nikitin's Journey Beyond Three Seas."
668:(Walking the three seas) about Nikitin's writings. A brand of Tver beer, "Afanasy", is named after Afanasy Nikitin. 1668: 1638: 1628: 1505: 1079:, p. 860, Nikitin spent almost three years in India, but his love of his homeland urged him back to Russia.... 1653: 181: 97: 541:. According to Semyonov's reconstruction, Nikitin left Russia in 1468 and spent the years 1471–1474 in India. 268:, where he followed a known trade route and made prolonged stops in market towns. He passed through Chapakur ( 1036: 714:
Previously, 1466 was widely accepted as the beginning of Nikitin's journey. This date was first proposed by
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six weeks later. It was probably after his arrival in India that he began writing his travel notes.
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write that it is more likely that Nikitin had purchased his goods using his own modest resources.
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to India. The expedition lasted from 12 November 2006 to 16 January 2007. The Indian newspaper
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in the spring of 1475. Other Russian merchants took his notes to Vasily Mamyrev, secretary to
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on the basis of his travel notes and memories. On his way to Tver, Nikitin died not far from
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One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Major, R. H. (1857). "The Travels of Athanasius Nikitin". In Major, Richard Henry (ed.).
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Nikitin was also featured on a coin commemorating the 525th anniversary of his journey.
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The New Encyclopædia Britannica: in 32 vol. Macropaedia, India - Ireland, Volume 21
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relatively early and prominent historians mentioned it in their works, such as
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Postnikov, Alexei V. (2003). "Nikitin, Afanasii". In Speake, Jennifer (ed.).
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This provides a more detailed itinerary of his outward and return journeys.
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and other functions, both ecclesiastical and civil, at the Bahmani capital
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The Afanasy Nikitin Seamount in the Indian Ocean is named in his honor.
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composed a song titled "Afanasy Nikitin Boogie". The power metal band
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Lenhoff, Gail (2004). "Nikitin, Afanasy". In Millar, James R. (ed.).
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See the online press report from the Embassy of India in Moscow at:
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After studying Nikitin's account, and especially his references to
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Lurye, Ia. S. (1986). "Russkiĭ «chuzhezemets» v Indii XV veka"
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During his trip, Nikitin studied the population of India, its
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In 2000, a black obelisk was erected in Nikitin's honor at
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Nikitin observed the markets, lifestyles and courts of the
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and other movable feast days or keep the Christian fasts (
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Riasanovsky, A. V. (1961). "Afanasii Nikitin's Journal".
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Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400–1800
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For an English translation of Nikitin's account, see
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Hoping to recoup his losses, Nikitin continued on to
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Index

Athanasius Nikitin
Monument to Afanasy Nikitin in Tver, Russia
Tver
Tver
Principality of Tver
Smolensk
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
A Journey Beyond the Three Seas
Russian
Tver
Europeans
Niccolò de' Conti
India
A Journey Beyond the Three Seas
Tver
Ottoman Empire
Grand Duchy of Lithuania
Moldavia
Wallachia
Georgia
Crimea
Caspian Sea
Shirvan
Azerbaijan
Volga
Makaryev Monastery
Uglich
Kostroma
Plyos
Nizhny Novgorod

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