The journey beyond three seas of Afanasij Nikitin in A.D. 1466-1472 : establishment of text, translation and commentary
Journal: cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
Year: 2012

The text established for this translation is based primarily on the Troickij copy. Interpolated variant readings are drawn from the full text of the Undol'skij copy and from variant readings of the Archive copy and the Ètterov copy. In the spring of 1466 a certain merchant of Tver, Afanasij Nikitin, set sail down the Volga with two ships, accompanied by the ambassador of Shīrwānshāh. At Astrakhan the Tartar Khan Kasim captured and plundered both ships. Empty handed, they crossed the first sea -