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The article considers those episodes from the notes of Afanasy Nikitin that allow us to doubt his merchant status. Based on the analysis of grammar, vocabulary and pragmatics of Afanasy’s messages, it is concluded that he traveled along the Volga and further as the head of a small community of people and that he differed from his companions in rank. A. G. Bobrov’s assumptions that Afanasy fulfilled some assignment given to him in Russia are confirmed. It is suggested that he could have been a boyar from a famous Tver family, and his possible relatives are named.
DOI: 10.31168/2305-6754.2025.1.10
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