Morning! Time to go again. Thank you to the student Association “CARP” and personally Mikhail Fedosov for the hospitality and lodging in Ulyanovsk.
My name is Evgeny Kutuzov and I am a very strange person. Now walking for 54 days from Tver in the direction of India.
Can you imagine? “What a fool” or “there’s nothing to do,” you might think. Maybe so. Just, a dream I have is to repeat on foot the path of the great Russian traveller Afanasy Nikitin.
550 550 years ago Afanasy went on a dangerous and amazing adventure. He was the first European to visit India. 30 years ahead of the Portuguese Vasco da Gama and Columbus, who generally travelled the longer way And this year marks the 530th anniversary of his book ” Journey Beyond Three Seas.”
Afanasy went on a journey by ship and animals, but I am on foot. I try to walk along the Volga and visit all the main cities, where more than five centuries ago Nikitin himself stayed.
You’ll probably think I’m a very rich man if I can afford it. Not at all. With a trip I took only 5000 rubles in cash and a small amount of money on the card. I have a tent, a sleeping bag, often for the night it is not possible to stay at local hotels in different cities, sometimes also food is difficult to come by.
From time to time various Newspapers or TV channels pay attention to my journey. I try to use this opportunity to help those who need it. For example, now we are raising funds for a 4-year-old boy Timur, who really needs rehabilitation in Nizhny Novgorod.
All information about Timur is here: https://vk.com/wall49870553_16345
I will be grateful to you for repost! Wish me luck and a good journey
