This brief paper seeks to explore the connections between the early Iranian geographical imagination and the contemporary Russian geographical conception of Eurasia. More specifically, this paper is driven by the question of whether, and to what extent the latter is informed by the former, and if so, how the latter’s conceptualization of geographical space borrows from the former. To carry out such an analysis, this paper employs an almost exclusively interpretive framework that begins with an examination of the geographical notions embedded in Ferdowsi’s tenth-century epic Shahnameh, followed by an examination of the Russian conception of Eurasia, and the loose but interconnected thought of Russian ‘Eurasianism’. Next, this paper examines whether similar or parallel concepts can be discerned between the two, as well as examining references to Ferdowsi’s geography in Russian Eurasianist thinking. ​Such an investigation contributes to the knowledge of how both regional powers make sense of themselves and their wider geographical context while contributing to existing scholarship by describing and explaining an underexplored connection between the geographical concepts of both Russia and Iran. As a result, preliminary findings may provide a window through which to understand the interconnected ideational roots that underpin these power’s geographical conceptions as well as how historical regional conceptions of geography remain pertinent to their contemporary conceptualizations and guide state behaviors on the Eurasian landmass.