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6 unusual facts about Afanasy Nikitin


Afanasy Nikitin

In 2000, a black obelisk was erected in Nikitin's honor at Revdanda, 120 km south of Mumbai, the probable location where he first set foot in India.

The Indian national newspaper, The Hindu, filed several reports of the expedition's progress.

He described his trip in a narrative known as The Journey Beyond Three Seas (Khozheniye za tri morya).

History of Sino-Russian relations

In 1466/73 Afanasy Nikitin made a journey southeast to India and left an interesting account.

Journey Beyond Three Seas

The film tells the story of Afanasy Nikitin (Oleg Strizhenov), a 15th-century, Russian trader who travelled to India (1466-1472), and falls in love with an Indian girl Champa (Nargis Dutt).

Oleg Strizhenov

He starred or appeared in more than 31 major films between 1951 and 2000 (with a break between 1987 and 2000), including films such as "Gadfly", "The Forty-first", Khozhdenie za tri morya ("The Journey Beyond Three Seas", also known as "The Traveler"), in which he played Afanasy Nikitin; "The Captain's Daughter", "The Queen of Spades", "Ne podsuden", "Gospodin Velikyi Novgorod", "The Young Peter the Great," "Karl Marxs: The Early Years," and others.



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