Afanasy Nikitin. Tolstov V.A.

Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin is known not only as the first Russian who visited India, but also as the author of the famous “Walking for the Three Seas” - one of the first in our literature of the monuments of travel prose. However, the reasons that sent Nikitin on an unprecedentedly distant path, nor the details of his biography, or even the exact dates of his journey are still unknown.

journalist from Tver Vladislav Tolstov in the first book about Athanasius Nikitin in the ZhZL series not only restores the life path of his hero, but also writes about the influence of his fifth -legendary image on our contemporaries.