A Journey Beyond the Three Seas is a Russian travelogue in the form of travel notes, made by Afanasy Nikitin, a merchant from Tver, during his journey to the Indian subcontinent in 1466–1472.
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The Rus' chronicles, or Russian chronicles, were the primary form of historical Old East Slavic literature in Kievan Rus' and its successors. Chronicles were composed from the 11th to the 18th centuri
Illustration from the illuminated 15th-century Radziwiłł Chronicle
The Chronicle (1887) by Alexander N. Novoskoltsev
Illustration from Christian Topography (Uvarov edition) captioned, "The world on the other side of the door"
Alexey Shakhmatov, classifier of the chronicles