For three seas, around the world and in the stratosphere

Igor Stomakhin / Strana.ru The Tver Region. Tver. Monument to Afanasy Nikitin Afanasiy Nikitin Tver region. Tver. Monument to Athanasius Nikitin. Photo: Igor Stomakhin / Strana.ru The Tver merchant Afanasy Nikitin is considered, if not the first, then one of the first Europeans to reach India. And not only in this he is the first.

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Svetlana Khodchenkova flirts on the red carpet 32-year-old singer and actress Vera Brezhneva grows two daughters. Her eldest daughter Sonya recently left for the first time with her mother, and the youngest daughter Sarah prefers not to get into camera lenses. The press invariably releases reports that another child will soon appear in Brezhnev’s family.