Imagine we are still only at the beginning of the Volga river, but some have been waiting at the end in Astrakhan.
Today is the 8th day, we can sum up the first results. During the week we walked about 290 km and visited the main cities visited by Afanasy Nikitin himself.
Afanasy wrote in the pages of his diary:
«From Kalyazin, I sailed to Uglich, and from Uglich15, I was allowed to depart unhindered. I then arrived at Kostroma, and, bearing a passport from the Grand Duke, called on Prince Alexander16, who allowed me to leave. Untroubled, I reached Ples.
I called on Mikhail Kiselev, Governor of Nizhny Novgorod, and Ivan Saraev, the Keeper of the Tolls, and they too allowed me to leave without hindrance. Vassily Papin had already moved on, and I waited two weeks in Novgorod for Hassan-Beg, the Tatar ambassador of Shirvan. He was travelling with gyrfalcons from the Grand Duke Ivan, and he had ninety gyrfalcons with him.»
I’m in Uglich today. Now this city is the administrative centre of Uglich district of the Yaroslavl region, and in the 13th to 16th centuries it was the center of Uglich Principality. Uglich is one of the cities of the Golden Ring and impresses everyone with its beauty, the number of ancient temples, museums! Many of the churches have been standing here since the time of Afanasy Nikitin. http://narslovar.ru/uglich.html
Now we will go straight to Yaroslavl, through a Large Village. The path will be very long. I wish you all a good day
