Athanasius Nikitin

Athanasius Nikitin (?-1472) was a Russish chapman, pathfinder and, one of the first to step on the land of India.

In 1466, Nikitin left the town of Tver, sailed off down the Volga ea and foreby on Derbent and Baku reached Persia, where he would stay for a year. In the Lent of 1469 he had oncome to the Kingdom of Ormus and through the Arabish Sea reached India, where he would b'live three years, speering the land thoroughly. Bewhile the way back through Persia he reached Trabzon, the Black Sea and oncame to Caffa. In 1472 in Smolensk, on his way back to Tver, he died.

Bewhile the fare Nikitin had been speering the indwellers of India, the framework of folkset, househoding, landmight, lief and umworld. He'd described his fare in his work "The Wayfare beyond three Seas", which betheened a weighty springhead of tidings about India, for it inheld a lot of deedsake on life and menning of the land.

In 1955, a thinktoken was built in Tver in memoriam Athanasius Nikitin.