Who among the following is a Russian who visited Vijayanagar in the 15th century?

Afanasii Nikitin

The correct answer is Option 1 - Afanasii Nikitin

Afanasii Nikitin was a merchant from Russia who visited Vijayanagar in the 15th century.

A large number of inscriptions of the kings of Vijayanagara and their nayakas recording donations to temples as well as describing important events have been recovered. Several travellers visited the city and wrote about it. Notable among their accounts are those of an Italian trader named Nicolo de Conti, an ambassador named Abdur Razzaq sent by the ruler of Persia, a merchant named Afanasii Nikitin from Russia, all of whom visited the city in the fifteenth century, and those of Duarte Barbosa, Domingo Paes and Fernao Nuniz from Portugal, who came in the sixteenth century.