170 Population of Russia. [March, 



the first from the Senate, the second from the Ministers of the 

 Finances. The first served for farming out the duties on spirits in 

 1803, and contains only the males. Its exactness may be depended 

 OT?. It is entitled. Number of Males according to the Fifth Revi- 

 sion. The number is 17,815,370. The second statement is very 

 circumstantial, and includes both sexes. It gives 17,800,536 

 males. The small difference between these two statements is owing 

 to the existence of some blanks in the last table, which they could 

 not venture to fill up, because the official documents had not 

 arrived. Hence the first number is the correct one, and the second 

 serves only to confirm it. 



The number of females stated in the last table is 16,223,229. 

 This number appears to me too small, and probably proceeds from 

 some inaccuracy in taking down the numbers of the females. 



According to the preceding statement, the final result of the 5th 

 revision is — 



Males 17,815,370 



Females 16,223,229 



Inhabitants of Russia 34,038,599 



with the exceptions above-mentioned. 



We come now to the annual enumerations. The ukase of the 

 I7th January, 1800, orders the civil governors to make annually 

 exact statements of the quantity of grain sown and reaped, and 

 likewise of the state of the population, without excepting any 

 person. This decree was repealed on the 8th of December, 1802, 

 by the Senate. The civil governors are bound to give as much 

 exactness as possible to the reports of the quantity of grain sown 

 and reaped in their respective governments, and likewise of all the 

 inhabitants, without exception, who reside in them. 



Since that period there have been general enumerations repeated 

 «very year all over Russia. The following are the results of the 

 first five years as I have received them from the Minister of the 

 Interior. 



The sum total of all the inhabitants of Russia of both sexes 

 was — 



In 1800 33,159,860 



1801 34,043,357 



1802 34,893,838 



1803 35,134,177 



1804 36,043,48* 



I have received from the same quarter the following data for 

 determining the number of individuals not comprehended in these 

 statements. 



1. The inhabitants domiciliated in Petersburgh, not reckoning 

 the military (estimated at between 30 and 40,000), amount to 

 170,000. This number may be true with respect to the inhabitants 



