Russian Empire Census

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Russian Empire Census of 1897 was the first and the only census carried out in the Russian Empire ( Finland was excluded ). It recorded demographic data as of 28 January 1897. Previously, the Central Statistical Bureau issued statistical tables based on fiscal lists (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿). The second Russian Census was scheduled for 1915, but was cancelled because of the World War I (and never happened in the Russian Empire because of the Russian Revolution of 1917). The census project was suggested by famous Russian geographer and chief of the Central Statistical Bureau Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky in 1877, and was approved by Tsar Nicholas II in 1895. The census was performed in two stages. In the first stage (December 1896 - January 1897) the counters (135,000 persons: literate soldiers, teachers and priests) visited all households and filled in the questionnaires, which were verified by local census managers. In the second stage (9 January 1898) the counters simultaneously visited all households to verify and update the questionnaires.