Athanasius Nikitin (?-1472) was a Russish chapman, pathfinder and forfetcher, one of the first Evelanders to step on the land of India. In 1466, Nikitin left the town of Tver, sailed down the Volga, reached Derbent, then Baku and later Persia, where he would stay for one year. In the Lent of 1469 he had lithed the Kingdom of Ormus and through the Arabish Sea reached Indland, where he would blive for three years, speering the land thoroughly. On his way back through Persia he reached Trabzon, rooded the Black Sea and oncame to Caffa. In 1472 in Smolensk, on his way back to Tver, he died.