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  • 6 - Maps as Chorography

  • from Part III - The Muscovy Company Maps Eurasia
  • Nancy S. Kollmann, Stanford University, California
  • Book:
    Visualizing Russia in Early Modern Europe
    Published online:
    31 August 2024
    Print publication:
    29 August 2024, pp 135-154

  • Summary

    Chapter 6 further examines the Jenkinson map, remarkable far more for its voluminous illustration than its cartography, which adds little that is new and renders Jenkinson’s route into Central Asia inaccurately. The map includes dozens of small illustrations, explained by almost thirty captions in cartouches, producing a map that informed Muscovy Company merchants of societies they would encounter on the route. The chapter concludes with three images of Central Asian exotica, added to the map for no more obvious purpose than entertainment.

  • 5 - The Muscovy Company as a Knowledge Network

  • from Part III - The Muscovy Company Maps Eurasia
  • Nancy S. Kollmann, Stanford University, California
  • Book:
    Visualizing Russia in Early Modern Europe
    Published online:
    31 August 2024
    Print publication:
    29 August 2024, pp 119-134

  • Summary

    Chapter 5 introduces the reader to the map of 1562 and 1566 attributed to Anthony Jenkinson, a merchant and envoy of the joint stock Muscovy Company. The Company had been founded in 1555 in London to capitalize on the unexpected landing of a British explorers in Muscovy’s hinterlands and quickly won trade monopolies with Russia; the chapter introduces the cast of characters (cartographer, engraver, publisher) in the Muscovy Company who collaborated in producing a map based on Jenkinson’s report of his travels through Russia to Persia in 1557 and 1561.