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Map and likeness of the lands of all Siberia with Tobolsk and all the towns, dwellings and steppes (ethnographic sheet with Velika Tartaria written across the centre), Remezov leaf dated 1699-1701 (Rumsey 15138)

Чертеж и сходство наличие земель всей Сибири Тобольскаго и всех розных градов и жилищ и степи

Semen Remezov

Map: Map and likeness of the lands of all Siberia with Tobolsk and all the towns, dwellings…, Remezov, 1699–1701 — Picture: David Rumsey Map Collection (CC BY-NC-SA). See it at full size at the library

How we know

compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.

compilation of Siberian administrative surveys, Cossack reports and informant testimony by the Tobolsk cartographer; ethnonym blocks are Remezov's own synthesis

Research notes

Rumsey's note reads Rossiiskii Gosudarstvennyi Muzei, Ermitazhnoe sobranie, f.256 no.346, l.27; f.256 no.346 is in fact the RSL Rumyantsev-collection shelfmark of the Chertezhnaya kniga Sibiri itself (see the IA scan of that manuscript), so the leaf is most likely the ethnographic sheet of the 1701 atlas, not of the Hermitage Sluzhebnaya kniga; the title in the record should be checked against leaf 23 of the atlas. Colour and south-up orientation are original.
Labels read: Велика Тартариа (centre), Земля Великиа Московии, Земля Китайскаго, Богдоиска, Мунгалы, Казачья Орда, Калмыцка, Земля Пермь Велика, Кореиска, Шветска, Лопарска, Самоедь, Тунгуска; Tobolsk (град Тоболеск) at centre. South is at the top.

Why it matters

The clearest Russian-made pre-1701 map that writes Velika Tartaria as a region label between Muscovy and China, surrounded by ethnonym blocks (Mungaly, Kalmyks, Kazach'ya Orda, Bukhara, Kitai, Bogdoi), so it documents what a Tobolsk official meant by Great Tartary; the sister of the chorographic book (M028) and the 1701 atlas (M006).