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 POPULATION.

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Area and Population — continued.

Governments

Area in geo. sq. miles

Pop. in 184G

Pop. in 1858

Oural Provinces — Orenbou

rg. 6,773

1,948,500

2,036.581

Perm

6,073

1,637,700

2,046,572

Viatka

2,500

1,662,800

2,123,904

Siberia — Tobolsk

1

Toomsk

.

Irkutsk

■

Yakutsk.

\ 223,780

2,937,000

4,070,938

Kamchatka

«

Okhotsk.

1

Yeniseisk.

J

Trans-Caucasia.

3,123

2,648,000

4,003,766

Grand-duchy of Finland

6,400

1,412,315

1,724,193

Former Kingdom of Polan Grand total

d. 2,320

4,857,700

4,790,379

325,740

65,947,315

73,920,000

A later census than the above was made for the provinces of European Russia, on the 1st of January, 1864, and for Finland and Poland on the 1st of January, 1863. According to these enumera- tions — instituted mainly for the purpose of finding the number of individuals subject to the poll-tax, and as such having no claim to great exactitude — the total population of Russia in Europe amounted to GjjOGljgQl; of Finland to 1,798,909; and of Poland to 5,336,210 souls, giving a total, for the European portion of the empire, of 68,196,920 inhabitants.

To the Asiatic portion of the empire there was added, in 1866, a new province, called Russian Turkestan. This province, according to an imperial decree of March 1, 1866, comprises all the territory bordering on the principalities of Central Asia, from the sea of Aral to Lake Issik-Koul, of a total area of 12,800 geographical square [miles, or three times the size of Great Britain.

The following table gives a view of the extent of the Russian jlominions at different epochs : —

In 1535, at the accession of John the Terrible

In 1585, at his death ....

In 1613, at the accession of Michael KomanofF

In 1645, at his death ....

In 1725, at the death of Peter the Great.

In 1741, at the accession of Elizabeth

In 1796, at the death of Catherine II.

In 1855, at the accession of Alexander II.

Geog. sq. miles 37,200 144,000 148,000 258,000 280,000 325,000 335,000 343,240