Nicholas Witsen's treatise "Northern and Eastern Tartaria" was first published in 1692 as a result of his trip to Muscovy as part of the Dutch embassy of Jacob Boreil in 1664-1665 and further travel to the lands of Siberia. Subsequently, this first book with an extensive description of Siberia and its map went through two more editions. But, unfortunately, it has not been translated into Russian, and machine translation from Dutch leaves much to be desired.
But what is in this book that it has not yet been published in our country? Is it because in its name Siberia is referred to as Tartary? And since the time of the Romanovs, the existence of Tartary was "taboo"? But apparently it's not just that. Even a bad machine translation allows us to understand that N. Vicente in one of the fragments of the text describes somewhere between Nerchinsk and the city of Argun on the river of the same name, on its left bank, numerous abandoned ancient mines and even megaliths. These mines are located in the mountains, heavily overgrown with forests, and seem to have long been abandoned. He also writes about the high quality of the silver ore found here.
These mines and quarries, as he was told by the locals, whom he calls "moguls," centuries ago were actively used for the extraction of silver and other metals, but then they were abandoned and are now the territory of the bears living there. He also mentions strange lakes with salt water among the mountains. And in some other areas, he describes other obvious traces of the Flood - swampy areas of the area, the shores of which are covered with clay.
Also, when describing the hostilities of the past, some "machines" are mentioned, armed with cannons, which were used by the Cossacks and the local residents opposing them. Here is a rather odd piece of text describing it in machine translation:
Conciliator, the mention of "machines" armed with artillery looks rather strange for the end of the 17th century. Or historians are clearly not telling us something about the technical equipment of past eras. Of interest are also several engravings depicting the destroyed cities of Tartary, named in the text of the book by Iki Burchan Coton (in another translation - Iki Burhan Coton), Tartar City, and Tartar Stadt. These ruined cities were already considered ancient ruins in Witsen's time.
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All these old cities of Tartary were surrounded by a square-shaped fortress wall. Iki Burchan Coton is also called a ruined city in Tartary with large idols. Translations of the text under two other engravings of ruined Tartar cities read: "The old ruined Tartar city in the desert, ten days' journey on this side of the great wall" and "The old ruined Tartar city located on this side of the great Sinskaya wall in the desert", i.e. … clearly refers to the territory located north of the Great Wall of China, and it is designated as the territory of Tartary.
N. Vitsen writes about these ancient destroyed cities of Tartary:
N. Vitsen writes that in the old ruined cities of Tartary there are many large statues and sculptures carved from stone at life size. There are images of "kings", "gods" and "demons", as well as various animals - turtles, lions, etc. The buildings of old cities, like many statues, are made of some kind of "gray stone" (possibly granite), of which they are composed and mountains. Also in the mountains, there are many ancient stone gravestones and stone "grave cities" (cemeteries) created by the tartars.
He also writes about some ancient dilapidated city, the foundation of which is attributed to Alexander the Great (Macedonian). There were many statues of wild animals in this city. as well as men and women in full size. At the same time, Witsen notes, much higher detail of all these images than in European cities. In this city, according to his description, there were huge stone columns, standing upright and possibly the remains of ancient ancient temples. So, the version with A. Makedonsky looks very plausible.
Also, N. Vitsen's book contains engravings (not in all editions), confirming that "Sina" (China or New China) was separated from Tartaria by the Great Wall of China during his journey to these regions. In addition to the description of this fact in the text of the book, this is clearly indicated by the names of two engravings: "View of one of the Sinskaya Gates in the North, through which Muscovites enter the Empire" and "The most famous Sinskaya wall separating Sina from Tartaria."
The explanatory inscription under the first engraving reads:
The second engraving, apparently, is not by chance present only in the first edition of Vitsen's book from 1692, and in the later editions of 1705 and 1785 it is no longer there. This allows us to roughly determine at what period the real information and references about the Great Tartary begin to hide by the falsifiers of history. However, this illustration appears in the 1704 edition of Ides called "The Passage of the Ambassadors through the Famous Great Wall."
N. Vitsen in his book clearly mentions Tartary, located in Siberia, as a territory under the rule of Muscovy or the Muscovite kingdom. Some researchers of alternative history quite logically believe that after the catastrophe that occurred somewhere in the 16th century, approximately during the reign of I. Grozny, the main cities of Siberia and especially the “center” of the previous world in its northeast were destroyed. At the same time, part of the territory of North-Eastern Siberia generally ended up at the bottom of the present northern seas.
Naturally, after this, the management of the confederation passed to the Tsar of Muscovy, who was later named I. the Terrible. He managed to unite the remnants of the deceased Tartary under his rule (the Kazan and Astrakhan kingdoms), and a little later the tsars of Muscovy united what remained of the Siberian territories of Tartary. At the same time, the Tsars of Muscovy from the clan of Rurikovich had the right to legitimate power over these territories, for Muscovy itself was once part of this confederation. Only she was much less affected by the Flood, which turned most of Siberia into an icy, lifeless desert.
But further in our history, some "misunderstandings" begin, based on the historical myths of the Romanov dynasty. It is known that after the Moscow Tsar's refusal to Catholicize Russia and the enslavement of its people, even in exchange for the crown of the "Emperor of the East" from the hands of the Pope, the Jesuits managed to poison first the son of Ivan the Terrible, and then himself. Also, thanks to the false myths, the tsar was labeled as "sonobians" and "bloody". And this, despite the fact that his contemporaries - "civilized" European monarchs destroyed ten times more of their subjects. But for some reason, in the new "Vatican" version of history, they are not even considered "bloody" at all. Moreover, it was at this time that the myth of the "civilization" of the Europeans and their alleged superiority over the "wild" Russian people appeared.
At the same time, with the formation of the Russian Empire with the capital in St. Petersburg, any mention of the Great Tartary disappears from Russian sources, the Tartars themselves begin to be called "Tatars", and the Moguls - "Mongols". But one must understand that these Siberian tartars had nothing to do with the Kazan Tatars (Bulgars), as well as with the Astrakhan and Circassian ones. And even more so, the current Mongols (ayrans) had nothing to do with the Mongols.
For example, from this engraving, you can clearly understand how other peoples of Siberia (Tartaria) looked in the time of N. Vitsen, for example, such as the Yakuts, Kalmyks, Ostyaks, Kyrgyz, Tanguts and Daurian peoples. And if we look closely at their faces, then we will not find any characteristic signs of Mongoloidism in them. Well, judging by the engravings of M. Polo, the tartars with the Mongols, as well as their kings (great khans), did not have any signs of Mongoloidism.
Here, for example, how the mugals or monguls look on the engraving for the book by N. Vitsen. And again - we see absolutely no signs of Mongoloidism. Typical facial features of white Caucasians. But they, according to the map of Eastern Tartary, compiled by N. Vitsen at the request of the co-rulers of Muscovy - Tsars Peter and Ivan, lived between the Great Wall of China and the Amur River.
But, of course, all this did not agree at all with the "Mongol Empire" invented by the Jesuits of the Vatican, behind which the very fact of the existence of Great Tartary was hidden. For the same reason, in the first editions of European encyclopedias, Tartary is unambiguously referred to as a country, and in subsequent editions - simply as a "wild territory". And this latest version is still adhered to by most of the official historians. including Russian.
But this is not surprising, because the Romanovs owe their entry to the Moscow throne to the Vatican. And few people know that the Russian historian A. Pyzhikov, shortly before his unexpected death, working with archival documents, discovered traces of falsification in historical sources, carried out by the Romanovs to preserve their power. It turns out that the election of Mikhail Romanov as Tsar in 1613 was a forced measure and did not give the right to inherit power. However, the Romanovs and their supporters did their best to hide this fact. They also falsified "evidence" of their "close relationship" with the Rurikovichs, which were supposed to legitimize the usurpation of power by this dynasty during the time of Alexei Mikhailovich, who received his throne illegally.
But an even more incredible falsification of history takes place after the substitution of a foreign impostor for Pyotr Alekseevich during the "Great Embassy" to Europe. It was after this that the real dominance of foreign specialists of all stripes began in the created Russian Empire with its center in the city of ancient civilization, which was restored and restored by a self-proclaimed dynasty, called St. Petersburg. It is from this moment that the "cleansing" of any historical sources and maps in Russian cities and monasteries begins, where Tartary is mentioned. At the same time, encyclopedias with the already updated concept of Tartaria are being republished in Europe.
By the way, in the book of N. Vitsen there is also a portrait of the not yet replaced real Tsar of Muscovy - Peter Alekseevich Romanov in his youth. And if we take a closer look at his facial features, we will find that he very little reminds us of the impostor who supposedly built a city on the Neva and became the emperor of the Russian Empire he created. I will not repeat the many proofs of this substitution, which I wrote about more than once in separate posts. However, all these facts, contained in the book by N. Vitsen, which we are considering, very well explain why it was not translated into Russian.
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