some word salad.

I still don't understand why it is so important for you to believe that Russian civilisation can't be independent from all that Western crap that means nothing for us. Believe it, if you wish, but don't try to sell that crap to others. You will look insane.

Kazakhstan was part of the Tartary in 1800s maps

That maps are just bullshit. There was no any Tartaria or whatever.

You will not find any toponymic mentioning "tartar" or "Tartaria" at all in that places. Sanskrit toponyms exist. Russian toponyms exist. Tatar toponyms exist. You will find even Ugro-finnish toponyms here. But not a single thing named after "large and mighty Tartaria".

This means only one thing - cartgraphers never was in that places in person.

Τάρταρος (tartaros) is ancient Greek name of worst place in Hell. It is just a scary word. That simple.

Russian lands was terra incognita for western cartographers. They just acquire few local maps from Russian merchants in Europe, or draw something from their words, combine it somehow and just think out all other things to sell the map to customer, perfectly knowing that customer will never reach that distant lands. Maps with "Here live dragons" or "Grand Tartaria" (Big Scary Hell) writing on it sell themselves much better.

some word salad.

I still don't understand why it is so important for you to believe that Russian civilisation can't be independent from all that Western crap that means nothing for us. Believe it, if you wish, but don't try to sell that crap to others. You will look insane.

Kazakhstan was part of the Tartary in 1800s maps

That maps are just bullshit. There was no any Tartaria or whatever.

You will not find any toponymic mentioning "tartar" or "Tartaria" at all in that places. Sanskrit toponyms exist. Russian toponyms exist. Tatar toponyms exist. You will find even Ugro-finnish toponyms here. But not a single thing named after "large and mighty Tartaria".

This means only one thing - cartgraphers never was in that places in person.

Τάρταρος (tartaros) is ancient Greek name of worst place in Hell. It is just a scary word. That simple.

Russian lands was terra incognita for western cartographers. They just acquire few local maps from Russian merchants in Europe, or draw something from their words, combine it somehow and just think out all other things to sell the map to customer, perfectly knowing that customer will never reach that distant lands. Maps with "Here lives dragons" or "Grand Tartaria" (Big Scary Hell) writing on it sell themselves much better.