"A Newe Mape of Tartary" (Russian Empire) by John Speed (1551/2-1629) from his atlas ‘A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World’, published in London by George Humble in 1626.This map has four vignettes of views of cities Astracan, Samarchand (Samarkand in modern day Uzbekistan), Cambalu (the capital of the Mongol Empire, founded by Kublai Khan, later called Peking and currently Beijing) and The House of Nova Zemla in the northern portions of Tartary jutting into the North Sea and the Frozen Sea. There are eight vignettes of indigenous people in their traditional dress. Tartary includes the Asian portions of Russia (Siberia, The Caucasus, The Poontic-Caspian Steppe, the Volga-Yrals) as well as portions of China, Tibet, Mongolia and Manchuria.
