| Males | Females | |
|---|---|---|
| Clergy. | ||
| Orthodox Greek clergy of all grades, including the families of ecclesiastics | 254,057 | 240,748 |
| United Greek | 7,823 | 7,318 |
| Catholic | 2,497 | |
| Armenian | 474 | 343 |
| Lutheran | 1,003 | 955 |
| Reformed | 51 | 37 |
| Mahommedan Mollahs | 7,850 | 6,701[A] |
| Buddhist Lamas | 150[B] | |
| Nobility. | ||
| Hereditary nobles | 284,731 | 253,429 |
| Personal nobles, including the children of officers | 78,922 | 74,273 |
| Subaltern functionaries, retired soldiers, and their families | 187,047 | 237,443 |
| Populations bound to military service in time of war. | ||
| Cossacks of the Don, the Black Sea, the Caucasus, Astrakhan, Azov, and the Danube, Orenburg and the Ural, and of Siberia; Bashkirs, and Mestcheriaks | 950,698 | 981,467 |
| Inhabiting towns, or included in the municipalities. | ||
| Merchants of the three guilds, including notable bourgeois | 131,347 | 120,714 |
| Bourgeois and artisans | 1,339,434 | 1,433,982 |
| Bourgeois in the towns of the western provinces | 7,522 | 6,966 |
| Greeks of Nejine, armourers of Toula, apprentices in the pharmacies, and others, brokers in the towns, and functionaries in the service of the municipalities | 10,882 | 10,940 |
| Inhabitants of the towns of Bessarabia | 57,905 | 56,176 |
| Inhabiting the rural districts. | ||
| Serfs of the crown and the apanages | 10,441,399 | 11,022,595 |
| Serfs of the seignorial lands | 11,403,722 | 11,958,873 |
| Nomade races, such as: | ||
| Kalmucks, Khirghis, Turkmans, Tatars | 254,715 | 261,982 |
| Inhabitants of the Transcaucasian Provinces | 689,147 | 689,150 |
| Kingdom of Poland | 2,077,311 | 2,110,911 |
| Grand Duchy of Finland | 663,658 | 708,464 |
| Russian colonies in America | 30,761 | 30,292 |
| Total | 28,883,106 | 30,213,759 |
[A: These figures are evidently misplaced. Ought they to stand for Catholic nuns?--Translator.]
[B: This number is quite erroneous, for we ourselves found several hundred priests among the Kalmucks of the Volga. The encampment of Prince Tumene, which we visited, alone possesses more than 200.]
Soldiers and sailors in actual service, their wives and families, not having been included in this total, the gross amount of the population of the empire appears to be about 61,000,000,--at least if we may judge from the ministerial table, the correctness of which we by no means guarantee.
According to the report of the ministry of the interior, the part of the population of European Russia not belonging to the orthodox Greek church, was, in 1839, as follows:
| Denomination | Members |
|---|---|
| Catholics | 2,235,586 |
| Gregorian Armenians | 39,927 |
| Catholic Armenians | 28,145 |
| Protestants | 1,500,000 |
| Mohammedans | 1,530,726 |
| Jews | 1,069,440 |
| Buddhists | 65,000 |
| Total | 6,868,824 |