RUSSIA. 



719 



itants per square mile; Kiev, 114; Poltawa, 

 104 ; Koorsk, 98 ; Tula, 97. Another point of 

 some interest is the population of Russian 

 towns. A large number that are officially 

 named such are only villages. About 100 of 

 these have less than 1,000 inhabitants each ; 

 some 150 vary from 1,000 to 2,000 ; and about 

 an equal number are under 3,000. Most of the 

 Russian towns, about 230, have from 5,000 to 

 10,000 inhabitants. There are only 140 towns 

 in Russia with a population over 10,000. Of 

 this number, only six have over 100,000 inhab- 

 itants; three from 75,000 to 100,000 ; five from 

 50,000 to 75,000 ; six from 40,000 to 50,000 ; 

 nine from 30,000 to 40,000 ; 22 from 20,000 to 

 30,000 ; and, finally, 89 from 10,000 to 20,000 

 inhabitants. 



The religious statistics of the empire, ac- 

 cording to the " Statistical Year-Book of the 

 Russian Empire" (vol. ii., Petersburg, 1871), 

 are as follows : 



I. EUROPEAN RUSSIA AND POLAND. 



I. EUROPEAN RUSSIA, 1867. 



II. KINGDOM OF POLAND. 



II. FINLAND. 



Nearly the entire population of the Grand- 

 duchy of Finland belongs to the Lutheran 

 Church. In 1867 it contained, besides the 

 1,759,359 Lutherans, 35,538 Orthodox Greeks, 

 and about 800 Roman Catholics. 



III. CAUCASUS AND SIBERIA. 



III. FINLAND. 



The large majority of the population are 

 Finns, who are divided into Tavasts and 

 Kardes. Of the non-Finnish inhabitants, about 

 125,000 are Swedes, 8,000 Russians, 1,000 Gyp- 

 sies, and 400 Germans. 



IV. CAUCASUS. 



Nationalities. Population. 



Russians 925,210 



Grusonians 852,319 



Armenians 561,734 



Greeks 3,557 



Germans 9,649 



Jews 21,676 



Tartars 977,191 



Nationalities. Population. 



Mountaineers 897,945 



Calmucks 



Nogalans 111.678 



Others 146,597 



4,507,556 



IV. CENTRAL ASIA. 



The large majority of the population are 

 Mohammedans. The number of the Greek 

 Catholics is estimated, in Akmollinsk, at 20,- 

 605, in Semipalatinsk at 50,355, in Semiret- 

 chensk at 2,000, in Uralsk at 40,503 (exclusive 

 of 42,443 Rascolniks). 



The " Statistical Year-book of Russia " gives 

 the following account of the different nation- 

 alities of the empire : 



v. SIBERIA. 



The number of Russians in Siberia is esti- 

 mated at 2,300,000, x that of Israelites at 7,000, 

 that of Germans at 3,000. 



The official estimate of revenue and expen- 

 diture for the year 1872, as sanctioned by the 

 Emperor, is as follows: revenue, 497,197,802 

 rubles ; expenditure, 496,813,581 rubles ; sur- 

 plus, 384,221 rubles. 



The public debt of Russia, on January 1, 

 1871, amounted to 2,000,414,345 rubles. 



According to the project of the transforma- 

 tion of the army, as elaborated by an imperial 

 commissioner, the Russian army is to consist, 

 in future, of 801,707 men on the peace-footing, 

 and of 1,653,393 on the war-footing. 



The Russian fleet consisted, in 1872, of 268 

 vessels, having 34,277 horse -power, with 

 1,535 guns. The greater and more formidable 

 part of this navy was stationed in the Baltic. 

 The Black-Sea fleet numbered 32; the Cas- 

 pian, 31 ; the Siberian, or Pacific, 39 ; and the 

 Lake Aral, or Toorkistan squadron, 6 vessels. 

 The rest of the ships were either stationed at 



