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Key facts
- Native name
- Афанасий Никитин
- Born
- Tver , Principality of Tver
- Died
- c. spring 1475 , Near Smolensk , Grand Duchy of Lithuania
- Language
- Russian
- Notable works
- A Journey Beyond the Three Seas
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Afanasy
- Family name
- Nikitin
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Principality of Tver
- Place of birth
- Tver
- Place of death
- Smolensk
- Occupation
- prose writer
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Russian
- Field of work
- merchant
- Genre
- Khojdenie
- Image
- RR5110-0019R 525 лет путешествию Афанасия Никитина в Индию.gif
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- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Afanasy Nikitin
- date of death
- 1472-00-00
- date of birth
- 1500-00-00
- writing language
- Arabic
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Encyclopedic overview
Afanasy Nikitin (Russian: Афанасий Никитин; died 1475) was a Russian merchant from Tver and one of the first Europeans (after Niccolò de' Conti) to travel to and document his visit to India. He described his trip in a narrative known as A Journey Beyond the Three Seas (Khozheniye za tri morya).
Life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Afanasy Nikitin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.