References to Tartars in news articles from the period:

Hamburg, May 3rd, 1701:
[...]the Czar (Peter the Great) who was on his Frontiers on this side, was gone home for Moscow, upon advice that the Tartars had made an incursion into his Dominions, and that the Turks made some motions as if they intended to retake Aloph.

Hamburg, May 13th, 1701:
7000 russian men quartered in Plescow are returning to Moscow likely because the...

Fragments of a Tartarian History, 1701-1702