Video: Walking the Three Seas
2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55
From the school history course, I think absolutely everyone knows the work "Walking the Three Seas" - a literary monument in the form of travel records made by the merchant from Tver Afanasy Nikitin during his trip to the Indian state of Bakhmani in 1468-1474 (dating by L. S. Semyonov, earlier by I. I. Sreznevsky was dated 1466-1472). Nikitin's work was the first Russian work to accurately describe trade and non-religious travel. The author has visited the Caucasus, Persia, India and Crimea. A short retelling here Audio version:
Historians draw us the following route for Afanasy's walking:
On the seas, on the mountains … With the goods that were constantly plundered, people were taken prisoner, etc. A strange route, isn't it? Who in their right mind will sail, abandon the ships and climb with the goods through the mountains and passes? Even now, there is no such road to India. And not quite the usual word: "walking." But who else walks in our country besides modern pedestrians? Sailors on ships! On the sea and on rivers and lakes, sailors walk, and do not swim in their terminology. So maybe Afanasy all this time sailed without land movements? Excerpts from the descriptions of Afanasy Nikitin "Walking the Three Seas":
Behold, I have written my sinful journey across the three seas: 1st Sea of Derben, Doria Khvalitskaa; 2nd Indian Sea, dorea Gundustanskaa; 3rd Black Sea, Doria Stebolskaya (Doria - sea)
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In the same land of Ethiopia there were five days. … I distributed a lot of brynts, and peppers, and Ethiopian bread, and they did not rob the ship. And from there Idoh 12 days before Moshkat. … and from Sultania came to Terviz, and from Terviz went to the horde of Asanbeg. The horde lasted 10 days, but there was no way anywhere. And on Turskago … and from Ortsytsan I went seven to Trepizon. … By the grace of God I came to the third sea of the Black Sea, and in the Parsian language Doria Stimbolskaa …:
Well, then I turned back to the Black Sea … from the Caspian … and arrived in the Caspian by ship without a transfer from Ethiopia … If Athanasius was sailing all the time by sea, then this map is correct:
And we have a completely different geography in the Middle Ages.: Then the division of Asia and Europe into continents is logically correct. Then, in reality, their border should be by sea in the Vost area. The Siberian Plain and the Ural Mountains are really the end of Europe, and the Caucasus is really somewhere in … small Asia. And Asia Minor is not just really Asia Minor and stands in front of Greater Asia. Crimea becomes an island and "past the Buyan island into the kingdom of the glorious Saltan" ships trudged …
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There is one more confirmation of this card, which I shared:
Ancient map. The channels connecting the Black Sea, the Caspian and the Persian Gulf are marked. One channel passes through the Caucasian mountains. Perhaps it was still a legacy from a past civilization that our wild ancestors mapped. North on the left is obtained on the map. To walk is to sail in the language of sailors up to now. So Afanasy Nikitin sailed along these channels? Or is it a simplified designation of straits, seas from the above map?
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