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Anastasy Nikitin, a Russian traveller who spent four years in the sultanate from 1470 to 1474, left us a report which is one of the most important European accounts of life in medieval India.
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Muslim historians, by contrast, have drawn attention to the fact that in art and architecture – indeed, Anastasy Nikitin ’ s report praised Bijapur as the most magnificent city of India.
Anastasy and Russian
Putnam was also the unlikely base of operations for the All-Russian Fascist Organization, a pre-war Russian emigre group that advocated fascism for the country under Anastasy Vonsyatsky.
* Anastasy Vonsyatsky ( 1898 – 1965 ), Russian anti-Bolshevik émigré and fascist leader of the All Russian National Revolutionary Party ; lived in and is buried in Thompson
On May 26, 1931, he became the Secretary General of the newly created Russian Fascist Party ; in 1934 the Party amalgamated with the Russian Fascist Organization of Anastasy Vonsyatsky, Rodzaevsky becoming its leader.
Nikitin and Russian
* 1944 – Sergey Nikitin, Russian composer
By the 17th century the influence of Renaissance painting resulted in Russian icons becoming slightly more realistic, while still following most of the old icon painting canons, as seen in the works of Bogdan Saltanov, Simon Ushakov, Gury Nikitin, Karp Zolotaryov and other Russian artists of the era.
* date unknown – Afanasy Nikitin, Russian traveller
A good share of modern Russian science fiction and fantasy is written in Ukraine, especially in Kharkiv, home to H. L. Oldie, Alexander Zorich, Yuri Nikitin and Andrey Valentinov.
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A Journey Beyond the Three Seas (, Khozheniye za tri morya ) is a Russian literary monument in the form of travel notes, made by a merchant from Tver Afanasiy Nikitin during his journey to India in 1466-1472.
Afanasy Nikitin ( Афана ́ сий Ники ́ тин in Russian ) ( died 1472 ) was a Russian merchant and one of the first Europeans ( after Niccolò de ' Conti ) to travel to and document his visit to India.
There is a folk legend, that this statue was raised because Nikita Khrushchev upon visiting India, told Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru 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 ).
In February 1996, Russian FSB arrested Bellona's Russian expert Alexander Nikitin and charged him with treason through espionage for his contributions to a Bellona report on the nuclear safety within the Russian Northern Fleet.
Russian icon of Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross ( icon from Yaroslavl by Gury Nikitin, 1680.
* Afanasy Nikitin (? 1474 ), Russian merchant, traveler and writer
Aleksander Nikitin, a Russian former submarine officer and nuclear safety inspector turned environmentalist, started to co-operate with Norwegian environmental Bellona Foundation in 1994.
* Biography of Simon Ushakov by Archimandrit Avgustin ( Nikitin ) – in Russian
The NSV ( Russian НСВ Никитина-Соколова-Волкова ) is a 12. 7 mm caliber heavy machine gun of Soviet origin, named after the designers, G. I. Nikitin ( Г. И. Никитин ), Y. S. Sokolov ( Ю. М. Соколов ) and V. I. Volkov ( В. И. Волков ).
Nikitin and who
Ecologist and journalist Alexander Nikitin, who worked with the Bellona Foundation, was accused of espionage.
The most famous bard performers who sang children's songs were the husband and wife duo Sergey Nikitin and Tatyana Nikitina.
* Niccolò de ' Conti ( 1385 – 1469 )-another European who traveled to India a few decades before Nikitin
Nikitin and years
In the spring of 1469, Nikitin arrived at the city of Ormus and then, crossing the Arabian Sea, reached the sultanate of Bahmani, where he would live for 3 years.
Nikitin and sultanate
On his way back, Nikitin visited Muscat, the Arabian sultanate of Fartak, Somalia and Trabzon, and in 1472 arrived at Feodosiya by crossing the Black Sea.
Nikitin and from
* 1843 — large-scale reconstruction of the theatre from the design by A. Nikitin
Its last page is in Turkic and the broken Arabic language ; these are, in fact, typical Muslim prayers, indicating that Nikitin might have converted to Islam while he was in India, although his lapse from Christianity bothered him as he mentions several times in the text.
On his way to Tver, Nikitin died not far from Smolensk in the autumn of that year.
After studying Nikitin's account, and especially his references to Islam ( at the time much of India was ruled by Muslim sultans and there were considerable numbers of Muslim merchants living along the coast ), particularly the prayers he transliterates from Arabic and Turkic into Cyrillic letters, Gail Lenhoff and Janet Martin concluded that Nikitin probably converted to Islam while in India.
Yakov Lurye, an editor of Nikitin's Journey, sees his conversion as doubtful, pointing out that a circumcised convert should be 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 Lithuania not far from the Muscovite border.
In 2006, the Indian organization " Adventures & Explorers ," with the support of the Embassy of India in Moscow and the Tver Regional Administration sponsored the " Nikitin Expedition ", in which 14 travellers set out from Tver to retrace Nikitin's journey through Russia, the Middle East, and Central Asia to India.
After reaching India, two members of the " Nikitin Expedition " set out in March 2007 from Mumbai ( formerly known as Bombay ) in SUVs to retrace Nikitin's travels around India itself.
In 1997, Nikitin was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize, but as a result of treason charges against him, he was prevented from attending the Prize ceremony.
Nikitin and left
In 1466, Nikitin left his hometown of Tver on a commercial trip to India.
Nikitin and is
A mark of Tver beer " Afanasy " is named after Afanasy Nikitin.
Aleksandr Nikitin is still engaged in environmental and human rights issues in Russia.
Nikitin and one
Grand Prince Boris of Tver sent one of his men, Afanasy Nikitin, to search for gold and diamonds as far as India.
Nikitin and European
* Afanasiy Nikitin – the first European to visit Golconda
Nikitin and India
During his trip, Nikitin studied the population of India, its social system, government, military ( he witnessed war-games featuring war elephants ), its economy, religion, lifestyles, and natural resources.
Nikitin in India
Nikitin and .
Friedrich * Ermler, starring Fyodor Nikitin, Tatyana Okova, Valeri Solovtsov, A. Bastunova
A forensic facial reconstruction of Grand Duchess Tatiana by S. A. Nikitin, 1994
In the 1960s, they were joined by Victor Berkovsky, Yuliy Kim, Sergey Nikitin, etc.
Standing tall, Ostankino was designed by Nikolai Nikitin.
A monument to Nikitin was opened on the Volga embankment in 1955.
* Dr. Alexander Nikitin, Director of the Center for Political and International Studies
* Work begins on the Ostankino Tower, designed by Nikolai Nikitin.
Also, the 15th century merchant-traveler Afanasii Nikitin used it simply as " concubine ," without any obscene connotations.
February 1, 2011 Vitaliy Nikitin was arrested by a court's decision initiated by SBU.
On the other hand, however, Nikitin all time prays to Blessed Virgin Mary as Theotokos, Christian Orthodox Saints, tries to observe Christian rights, and so on.
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