Afanasy Nikitin (Афана́сий Ники́тин 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. He described his trip in a narrative known as The Journey Beyond Three Seas (Khozheniye za tri morya).
Read more about Afanasy Nikitin: The Voyage, Nikitin, Christianity, and Islam, Nikitin in Modern Memory