AREA AND POPULATION
911
Yeai-
Population
Year
Population
1722
14,000.000
1815
45,000,000
1742
16,000,000
1835
60,000,000
1762
19,000,000
1851
68,000,000
1782
28,000,000
1859
74,000,000
1796
36,000,000
1897
129,000,000
1812
41,000,000
The following tabh' oxliil>its tlie details of the census which was taken over the whole of the Empire on January 28 (February 9) 1897, with the exception of the Grand-Duchy of Finland, — no less than 230,000 persons having been engaged to take part in it. Comparing the items ol' the census with the figures of the 1856-59, it appears that the population of the Em])irc has increased by 93 per cent. The largest increases took place in the capitals (270 p.c. in St. Petersburg); South Russia comes next (207 p.c. in Kherson, 170 p.c. in Ekaterinoslaf, 137 p.c. in Taurida). The increase in other parts of the Empire appears as follows : — North-West Russia, from 56 to 73 p.c. ; Baltic Provinces, 25 to 58 p.c. ; White Russia and Lithuania, 77 (Kovno) to 130 (Minsk) p.c. ; Poland, 117 p.c. ; Caucasus (without annexations) 95 p.c, ; Siberia, 130j).c.
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Area :
Domiciled
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Area :
Domiciled
,i
Province
English square
Popula- tion
53 03
Provinc
English square
Popula- tion
CD '-'
miles
1897
P.
1 miles
1897
P< 74
1. European
Saratoff
. 32,624
2,419,884
Russia —
Simbirsk
. 19,110
1,549,761
81
Archangelsk
331,640
347,589
1
Smolensk
21,638
1,551,008
72
Astrakhan .
91,327
994,775
11
Tamboff
. ' 25,710
2,715,453
106
Bessarabia .
17,619
1,933,436
113
Taurida
24,497
1,443,566
62
Chernigotf
' 20,233
2,321,900
115
Tula
, 1 11,954
1,432,743
120
Courland .
i 10,535
672,634
64
Tver .
, 1 25,225
1,812,825
73
Don, Region of
63,532
2,575,818
41
Ufa .
, 1 47,112
2,220,497
47
Ekaterinoslaf .
1 24,478
2,112,651
86
Vilna ,
, : 16,421
1,591,912
98
Esthonia .
- 7,818
413,724
54
Vitebsk
, \ 17,440
1,502,916
89
Grodno
' 14,931
1,617,859
109
Vladimir
18,864
1,570,733
84
Kaluga
11,942
1,185,726
99
- Volhj-nia
27,743
2,997,902
109
Kazan
• 24,601
2,191,058
89
Vologda
. 155,498
1,365,587
9
Kietl- .
19,691
3,576,125
181
Voronezh
25,443
2,546,255
109
Kostroma .
32,490
1,429,228
44
Vvatka
59,329
3,082,788
52
Kovno
15,692
1,549,444
100
Yaroslav
, - 13,751
1,072,478
78
Kursk.
17,937
2,396,877
134
Sea of Azo\
r , 14,520
—
—
Kharkoff . Kherson
21,041 27,523
2,509.811 2,732,832
119 100
Total, Ru
ssian i
Livonia
18,158
1,. 300, 640
74
Province?
. jl,902,202
94,215,415
51
Minsk Moghilev . Moscow
.35,293
i 18,551
12,859
2,156,123 1,708,041 2,433,356
61
92 189
2. Poland:- Kalisz.
194
, ' 4,392
846,719
Nijni-Novgorod . Novgorod . Olonetz Orel . Orenburg .
19,797 47,236 57,439 18,042 73,816
1,600,304 1,392,933 366,715 2,054,749 1,609,388
81
33
7
114
22
Kielce Lomja Lublin Piotrkow Plock .
. , 3,897
4,667
6,501
, t 4,729
, I 4,200
763,746
585,781
1.159,463
1,409,044
556,877
196 i
144
177
297
153
Penza . Perm .
14,997 1 128,211
1,491,215 3,003,208
99 24
Radom Siedlce
4,769 5,535
820,363 77 -.,.31 6
171 140
Podolia Poltava
16,224 19,265
3,031,513 2,794,727
187 145
Suwalki Warsaw
4,846 5,623
604,945 1,933,689
12V 286
Pskov
17,069
1,136,540
68
Rvazan
16,255
1,827,5.39
113
Total, Polai
id . 49,159
9,455,043
193
St. Petersburg .
20,760
2,107,691
123
Total, Rnss
ia and
1 Samara . .
1 58.321
2,763,478
46
Poland
. 1,951,361,
103,671,358
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