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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
