This detailed map illustrates the full extent of Russia from Eastern Europe to Tartary and the Pacific Ocean. Two tables below are keyed to the regions and towns on the map. It was published in the fourth volume of the encyclopaedic atlas by Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684-1743) entitled ‘Atlas Historique ou Nouvelle Introduction a l’Histoire, a la Chronologie & a la Geographie’. It was issued from 1705 to 1720 in 7 volumes. Many of he maps are derived from the cartography of Guillaume de L’Isle. The text and many of the plates related to the best travel accounts of the period. including Chardin, Dapper, de Bruyn, Le Hay and others. Koeman II p. 33; Phillips 579; Shirley ‘Atlases in the BL’ T.Chat-1a; Van Waning ‘Chatelain’s Atlas Historique’ in IMCoS Journal 120 pp. 7-15.