On all old maps, most of the current territories of Russia adjacent to the Arctic Ocean are called Samoyedia. On some maps, the name is written in the same large letters as Tartary. And this means that its significance was no less? Let's consider sequentially the cards, from the oldest to the present day.
Map of Abraham Ortelius (1570)
Large animals are drawn on it in the area between the Northern Dvina and Pechera. Probably bears? Almost in the center there are tents and people with camels. This is most likely the capital of Tartary - Tobolsk. One of the inscriptions on this card about the Golden Baba:
Fragment of Mercator's map (Antique map of Tartaria (Minor) by Mercator - Hondius, 1607).
Link to the map.
MAP OF THE NORTHERN COAST OF RUSSIA 1612 by Isaac Massa
At the top of the map it is written: "Map of Northern Russ, Samoyeds, end of the Tungus land, which the Russians drew, and Isaac Massa translated."
Promotional video:
It's good that at least one honestly confessed! That he did not swim there himself, on these northern waters covered with ice hummocks, but took a ready-made Russian map and translated it into German. It is necessary to understand that it is quite possible, and the rest of all foreign cards too? Where, I wonder, are all the Russian sources from which they redrawn their maps are stored?
On this map, by the way, above Novaya Zemlya, not the second part of the island is shown, but the mainland! This is best seen on Mercator's map, from his 1595 world atlas:
Fragment of the Mercator map, 1595.
High definition map.
It turns out that the Russian map that Isaac Massa redrawn in 1612 is actually much older. Was it not from the same Russian map that Mercator drew his own? In 1595 he was still painting the mainland, but already in 1607 he was not. But the dating of the maps may be wrong.
Samoyedia on the map of Remezov:
Fragment of a map from Remezov's Drawing Book, sheet 20, 1701.
North is right here. The mentions of the Samoyeds and the Golden Woman are sketched in blue. Along the Poluy River, some cities or burials are shown. But I couldn't make out the text. In the upper-right corner of the map, "Stone Mountains" is written in Dutch. And something like a passage is drawn. It is written "passagie", but in Russian: "Volovka, cruise (?) Passage through the stone, with the Ob." The name "Stone Mountains" is interesting. And aren't there still mountains of stone?
Fragment of the map William Faden: The Russian Dominions in Europe with the Post Roads and New Governments (Russian possessions in Europe with post roads and a new government), 1808.
The whole map is here.
On this map, the Karelian Peninsula is called Russian Lapland, and the Arkhangelsk region is called the Archangel.
Fragment of the world map by A. Vuillemin, 1854.
High resolution map.
On this map, Samoyedia occupies a vast territory from Lake Onega (Leningrad Region) to the Anabar River (Yakutia).
For comparison with old maps, a modern map of this region:
Fragment of a map of Russia.
Samoyedia is clearly a Russian name, since it consists of Russian words, the meaning of which is not clear to anyone except those who know Russian.
Wikipedia on Selfedia writes:
The Soviet linguist G. Prokofiev proposed to rename the Samoyeds into Samoyeds in 1938, because the name Samoyeds was considered offensive. And Kazakstan was renamed to Kazakhstan in 1936, when obviously many peoples were renamed or transferred for some reason.
N. Witsen in his book "Northern and Eastern Tartary" about Samoyed and Samoyeds:
About the origin of the Samoyed name:
I wonder how the Samoyeds knew that other peoples were changing their place of residence?
The distance from the southern point of Novaya Zemlya to Vaigan Island is 50 km, and probably the same distance to the mainland. And if you do not swim from the extreme point to the extreme? Here you can't do without navigation skills. At sea, the visibility of the horizon is 3.6 km. Those. breaking away from the coast for 3-6 km, there is only an endless sea and no landmarks around.
I wonder what boats they sailed to Novaya Zemlya? Not on the same:
![Waiting for the sea animal. From the life of the Novaya Zemlya Nenets [1896], A. Borisov](https://i.greatplainsparanormal.com/images/015/image-42676-9-j.webp "Waiting for the sea animal. From the life of the Novaya Zemlya Nenets [1896], A. Borisov")
Waiting for the sea animal. From the life of the Novaya Zemlya Nenets [1896], A. Borisov.
In the ocean on such a boat, in my opinion, an unrealistic task. Moreover, this ocean cannot be called calm:
Bird market on Novaya Zemlya. A. Borisov.
It's even hard to imagine how you can get there on such a boat:
On the road. New Earth. 1912.
And what's that? It looks like a pyramid:
New Earth, 1912.
Speaking of those places, Witsen mentions Hyperborea:
The Riphean mountains on the Mercator map are drawn along the coast of the Arctic Ocean:
Fragment of the Mercator map, 1595.
Under the mountain range there is an inscription: "Camenoi poyas, hoc est orbis terre cingulum mons, Hyperboreusveteribus" (Stone belt, this is the world mountain belt of the old Hyperboreans)
Remizov depicted the same mountains on his map (north below), the mountains are shown in yellow:
Fragment of a map from Remezov's Drawing Book, sheet 46, 1701.
From the book of N. Witsen:
Currently, these mountains do not exist. Perhaps it was an artificial structure, later destroyed? Some kind of protective wall from the cold north wind? After all, mountains can change the climate very significantly. What we see in Crimea: the South Coast has a subtropical climate, and there palm trees turn green all year round, while in the rest of the territory, in the steppe Crimea, temperatures, and most importantly, cold winds are so strong that the northerners (ha-ha) cannot withstand run away to bask back to the north.
Remnants of the Hyperborean Stone Belt?
Stone idols of Man-Pupu-Ner, Komi.
The official version is that these are pillars of weathering. Weathered the remains of the wall after its destruction?
Further from the book of N. Witsen:
This people lived for a long time, or rather forever, since they left life of their own free will, when they believed that it was time for them to leave. How old is this legend? It is interesting that Witsen (or rather the one who sent him this message) speaks of this people in the present tense as still existing.
Obviously, here we are talking about the passage shown on the map of Remezov, which was mentioned above.
Obviously, this ancient city was somewhere here:
Fragment of a map from Remezov's Drawing Book, sheet 46, 1701.
Excerpts from the book of N. Witsen:
The entire Russian north was simply strewn with megaliths.
Megaliths of Karelia.
Megaliths of the Kola Peninsula.
Megalith Verkhnyaya Pyshma.
Megaliths of Taimyr.
Megaliths of Kolyma.
Stone balls, Franz Joseph Land.
Are the current islands of the Arctic Ocean the remains of the dead Hyperborea? Why do birds still fly there to give life to their offspring?
Bird market, Franz Josef Land.
Author: i_mar_a