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74-574: At the time of the Russian Empire Census of 1897, Oshmyansky Uyezd had a population of 233,559. Of these, 80.0% spoke Belarusian , 12.1% Yiddish , 3.7% Lithuanian , 2.3% Russian and 1.7% Polish as their native language. 54°25′30″N 25°56′15″E  /  54.42500°N 25.93750°E  / 54.42500; 25.93750 This Lithuanian location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Russian Empire Census The Russian Empire census , formally

148-562: A 1920 "general census" (except in the Russian far north, far east, Ukraine, and the Caucasus). Zemstvo A zemstvo ( Russian : земство , IPA: [ˈzʲɛmstvə] , pl.  земства, zemstva) was an institution of local government set up during the emancipation reform of 1861 carried out in Imperial Russia by Emperor Alexander II of Russia . Nikolay Milyutin elaborated

222-592: A lack of authority and independence. In 1864, the first law on Zemstvos was enacted by the Emperor which outlined the powers of the zemstvos. These powers were administrative and focused on local issues which were mostly not addressed by existing institutions. In 1865, zemstvos were opened in nineteen provinces, and between 1866 and 1876 another sixteen were established, 35 zemstvos in total in European Russia and Bessarabia , with some exceptions: there were no zemstvos in

296-414: A physician-patient ratio worse than 1 to 10,000. Practitioners suffered from a lack of trust on the zemstvos' part. Recommendations such as funding for hospital improvements would be weighed against ideas from the assembly. Practitioners made several attempts to form a national organization for the advancement of medicine, but this was delayed until 1885. One of the goals this national system would achieve

370-415: A representative council ( zemskoye sobranye ) and of an executive board ( zemskaya uprava ) nominated by the former. The board consisted of five classes of members: The nobles received more weight in voting for a zemstvo even though nobles were a tiny minority of the population. District zemstvos were required to have 40% of their assembly elected by the peasants, but provincial assemblies were elected from

444-456: A weekly study of six hours in the Word of God, three hours of Slavonic Church, eight hours of Russian Language, two hours of writing, and five hours of arithmetic. From 1902-1905, there were widespread reports of a total loss of independence of the peasant members of the zemstvos. Authority was ceded to the land captains . During this time, period sections of the government more closely connected to

518-427: Is uniform medical records to support analyzing cases from other provinces. Practitioners also demanded changing from the circuit system in which they spent most of the their time traveling to each remote village to see patients to a stationary system in which they held regular hours at a medical center. Zemstvos opposed the stationary system throughout the 1870s on the grounds that remote villagers which paid taxes towards

592-617: The First general census of the population of the Russian Empire in 1897 , was the first and only nation-wide census performed in the Russian Empire . The census recorded demographic data as of 9 February 1897 [ O.S. 28 January]; with a population of 125,640,021, it made Russia the world's third-most populated country at the time, after the British and Qing empires . Although the census

666-560: The Marshal of the Nobility . These zemstvos typically created a small number of delegations for handling decisions the assembly came to. One such typical delegation was an executive board which worked year around. It was not uncommon for one individual to serve as the Marshal of the Nobility and chairman of the executive for a number of years. Enactments from the zemstvos generally needed approval from

740-633: The Socialist Revolutionary Party and the nihilists , met them with hostility, believing that the reforms were too minor. Still, in his 1901 article " What is to be done ", Lenin advocated for a short-term alliance with the zemstvos against Tsarist oppression. In 1906, each zemstvo was able to elect one deputy to represent them in the State Council . Absenteeism increased dramatically during this period and many zemstvos were considered to be in good attendance if half their members showed up to

814-501: The Tsardom of Russia under the reign of Peter the Great was about 15 million in 1710. Previous censuses had been recorded for fiscal and military purposes. Until the eighteenth century, population records were sporadic, as in either scribal or census books. Audits began to be carried out at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and population censuses became relatively regular. Since 1858,

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888-432: The 1905-6 year 66 districts boycotted taxes in protest of the taxes being too high. Discontent was most severe where the zemstvo's tax on land allotted to the peasants was taxed much higher than privately owned land. Notable participants in the 1905 revolution affiliated with the zemstvos include Dmitry Shipov , Dmitry Shakhovskoy , Georgy Lvov , Pavel Dolgorukov , and Fedor Redichev . Several of these men overlap with

962-475: The Ministry of Education created a national pension fund which all teachers could participate in. Additional administrative action in 1913 caused the existing zemstvo schools to become more under the influence of the Ministry of Education than the zemstvos themselves. In 1914, zemstvos lost the power to direct school teachers and the ministry gained the power to fire any school teachers they deemed as unfit. Prior to

1036-472: The Russian group and labeled those nationalities as Little Russian for Ukrainians and White Russian for Belarusians. The census did not contain a question on ethnicity, which was deduced from data on mother tongue, social estate and occupation. There was also a 1916 and 1917 "agricultural census" that was carried out throughout the empire (except in some parts of the Caucasus, Eastern Russia, and Siberia), and

1110-593: The audit had been replaced by administrative and police registration of the population based on data from family lists. In total, three large administrative and police censuses of the population were carried out—in 1858, 1863, and 1885. Running population registrations – including births, marriages, and deaths – were carried out by religious organisations until 1918. All the items mentioned above were characterised by inaccuracy and insufficient completeness. By 1897, significant experience had been accumulated in local, mainly urban, population censuses that had been conducted since

1184-407: The central bureaucracy and the zemstvos was recognized by Tsar Nicholas II in his 1903 manifesto on provincial administration. This manifesto served as public support for the reforms led by Minister of Interior Vyacheslav von Plehve . The goal of Plehve's reforms was to bring tighter control of the zemstvos through gubernatorial oversight. These reforms faced significant opposition from the zemstvos,

1258-513: The central bureaucracy such as the governors' offices, the ministers of finance, the ministers of interior, and special police investigations became more and more involved in zemstvo affairs. This was unpopular with zemstvo officials many of which were contributing to a liberal constitutionalist political movement. Financial and practical burdens from the Russo-Japanese War contributed to increased tensions on all sides. Rising distrust between

1332-556: The complete census for the Arkhangelsk and Tobolsk governorates has been preserved, and the census for portions of several other governorates is also extant. The results may have been influenced by national policy of the authorities: the population of Russian ethnicity was somewhat exaggerated. Thus for example, the number of Poles is underrepresented. Imperial officials classified the Ukrainian and Belarusian languages as belonging to

1406-613: The conduct of all citizens outside of townships in a wide variety of issues. In return, citizens gained the right to appeal the zemstvo's enactments to the Senate. In the 15 years that followed, the Senate heard 226 of these appeals, which primarily involved tax disputes. The reforms changed the legal status of men serving on the zemstvo from private citizen to government official. Zemstvo officials could enforce these regulation by bringing violators before criminal courts. Prior to 1890, zemstvo sessions were often cut short due to assemblies not meeting

1480-584: The crown or clergy. The number of Synod administrated schools fell from 24,000 in 1886 to 4,000 by 1880. The zemstvo school system was built from the existing peasant education system. Prior to 1870, peasant communities were required to provide the facilities, and the zemstvos did not reliably pay teachers. In the 1870s, zemstvos shifted to reliable salaries and began providing additional materials such as blackboards. The shift from these schools being funded by peasant communities to zemstvo budgets took several decades. The zemstvo did not even reach budget parity with

1554-453: The direct costs of medical care and aimed to compensate providers through tax funds. The medical experts supported by the zemstvos put significant focus on hygiene education and preventative medicine. The zemstvo officials and practitioners appreciated the difficulty of not only making illiterate, god fearing peasants trust a largely secular medical system based on rational analysis, but making them understand this distinction at all. Growth of

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1628-497: The district without such a quota. This resulted in much lower peasant representation at the provincial level. Persons under 25 years of age, under criminal investigation, convicted criminals, and foreigners were not permitted to be in the zemstvos. Women who owned sufficient property to gain a seat on a zemstvo could appoint a male proxy to vote for them. By 1913, 20-40% of the eligible voters in Tula Oblast were women depending on

1702-453: The early 80s of the nineteenth century, the Ministry of Internal Affairs began to receive statements from some zemstvo assemblies and governors about the need to conduct a population census as soon as possible; this was due to the unbalanced distribution of taxes among peasant families and an increase in arrears in collections from the population. After the famine of 1891–1892 , the question of

1776-522: The election. Women were de facto denied the right to serve as deputies with this confirmed de jure in 1903. Prior to each election, lists of eligible voters for a given zemstvo were published for public comment. Voters could be stricken by the zemstvo or added to the roster based on public comment. Voters had to be present to vote in person on candidates who were self nominated. The electoral bodies were not allowed to give instructions for how candidates should perform once elected. The governor could object to

1850-575: The empire, including a two-volume summary. The next census had been planned for December 1915, but was cancelled due to World War I . It was not rescheduled before the Russian Revolution . The next census in Russia only occurred at the end of 1926 , almost three decades later. Population censuses in Eastern Europe, as well as throughout the world, were carried out in one form or another throughout

1924-532: The existence of tribes, principalities, kingdoms, kaganates, khanates, kingdoms, empires, and states in order to determine the expected collection of income from subject territories and peoples. In the thirteenth century, the Golden Horde enumerated the population of the Rus' three times—1245, 1257, and 1274; according to censuses, the Rus' population was then estimated at approximately 10 million people. The population in

1998-455: The governor or Minister of the Interior. These approvals could be withheld on the grounds that an enactment was either illegal or against state interests. In the case that enactments were not approved, governors were expected to notify the assembly and deliberate on adjustments to the enactment that would allow it to pass. If compromise could not be found, the Senate would hear the case. The governor

2072-600: The idea of the zemstvo, and the first zemstvo laws went into effect in 1864. After the October Revolution the zemstvo system was shut down by the Bolsheviks and replaced with a multilevel system of workers' and peasants' councils (" soviets "). The main body of the zemtsvo was the assembly to which members were elected. The assembly generally met once a year to address the docket. Assemblies could then appoint deputies to carry out orders and objectives in response to issues

2146-473: The issue of eliminating the district zemstvos and centralizing all functionality within the provincial zemstvo was seriously debated. This debate was especially significant in Moscow where Dmitry Shipov , chairman of the provincial zemstvo, resigned in protest to bring attention to the debate. The first formal curriculum for zemstvo schooling was created by the Ministry of Education in 1897. This program prescribed

2220-559: The land a noble member represented. By 1905, each peasant assembly member represented 6.47 times the land a noble member represented. Zemstvo expenditure grew from 89.1 million rubles in 1900 to 290.5 million rubles in 1913. Of the latter sum, 90.1 million rubles were spent on education, 71.4 million on medical assistance, 22.2 million on improvements in agriculture, and 8 million on veterinary measures. The chief sources of zemstvo revenue were rates on lands, forests, country dwellings, factories, mines and other real estate. From 1897 to 1899,

2294-434: The larger Great Reforms with the specific goal of creating the organs of local, self-government on an elected basis. The existing system of elected bodies of local self-government in the Russian Empire was represented at the lowest level by the mir and at the regional level by the volost . These institutions continued during the zemstvo period; however, they were seen as insufficient for addressing local politics due to

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2368-412: The later half of the nineteenth century. Population censuses were performed in separate governorates ( Pskov in 1870 and 1887, Astrakhan in 1873, Akmola in 1877, etc.), in which residents in all cities were enumerated. The population in the entire Courland Governorate was enumerated in 1863 and 1881, and in the governorates of Livonia and Estonia in the latter. Registration of the rural population

2442-538: The local peasant communities until 1889. Afterwards, zemstvos budgets rapidly expanded, and education became the largest share of the budget. In 1893 the total zemstvo expenditure on education was 9 million rubles, by 1913 it was nearly 90 million rubles. Students of zemstvo schools could be subjected to year-end examinations at the zemstvos discretion. Pass rates for these exams were used to evaluate teacher performance and male students that passed were required to do less military service. Zemstvo teachers mostly came from

2516-463: The lyrics and memorize the tones of church songs was encouraging to all. In 1907, the Duma created a fund to establish a school for every village in Russia. These funds were dispensed through the zemstvos to existing school or were given to school curators which often resulted in the construction of new schools. Herein arose a new class of "state schools" which were not affiliated with the zemstvos. In 1910,

2590-482: The main objectives. About 20% of Russia's annual state revenue was assigned to the zemstvos in the early years. Zemstvos were able to draw taxes from a variety of other sources and for a variety of purposes. It is difficult to summarize what a typical zemstvo's taxation looks like. For example, land tax accounted for between 3 and 90 percent of a zemstvo's revenue depending on the zemstvo and year. In many districts, police were supposed to collect harvest taxes on behalf of

2664-427: The medical and educational staff, the agronomists and statisticians were common third element professions. These professionals profited from the employment, but they also donated their time as civic service. The third element was a source of significant distrust of the zemstvos by the central government. Unlike the zemstvo administrators (first element) and deputies (second element), the third element often came from

2738-521: The medical service would not receive equal access. In the 1880s the stationary system became more popular as the number of practitioners grew. As the circuit system faded away, the zemstvos engaged in heated debate over what to do with the feldshers . These positions represented the gap between the ideal medical care the zemstvo system sought and the practical limitations of what could be provided. Restrictions were placed on feldshers such that much of their day to day job became technically illegal, but there

2812-425: The medical system was slow and depended on growth of the third element. The first zemstvo bureaucracies for managing the various salaried positions connected with the zemstvo did not emerge until the 1870s. Growing numbers of salaried workers inevitably lead to growing budgets. At several points in the early zemstvo period budget concerned lead to push back and laying off practitioners. By 1910, nearly all districts had

2886-436: The meetings. As Prime Minister, Pyotr Stolypin gave zemstvos the budget and authority needed to carry out many of the projects in his agrarian reforms. His administration expanded the number of the zemstvos from 34 to 43. The new Duma electoral law resulted in 30% of the legislators of the third and fourth Duma coming from zemstvo backgrounds. In the period leading up the 1905 Revolution and throughout Stolypin's governance,

2960-536: The members of Beseda : a clandestine organization for liberals to discuss the issues of the zemstvo. In response to the Russian Peasants' uprising of 1905–1906 , the zemstvos turned sharply conservative. Georgy Lvov was voted off the zemstvo for being a 'dangerous liberal'. The zemstvo assemblies, still dominated by nobility, were frightened by the violence of 1905. Many members joined the United Nobility and

3034-428: The middle class. There was a mix of male and female teachers which leaned towards the females. Teachers were united by low pay, isolation in communities unfamiliar to them, and being unmarried. Only 17% of female teachers were married and 47% of male teachers were married in 1911. Choir was a popular way to boost scholastic engagement. Nearly every other form of education received criticism, but teaching students to read

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3108-571: The ministers of finance, and several governors. In Saint Petersburg , Plehve was able to force the governor to resign over his opposition to the reforms. Plehve worked closely with the Police Department of Russia , which he formerly lead, to oust many zemstvo members. Several prominent zemstvo figures, including Shipov, were formally reprimanded by the Tsar. The participants of Russian Revolution of 1905 largely overlapped with zemstvo participants. In

3182-570: The obligation to have accurate figures of the population of the empire again arose. The census project was suggested during 1877 by Pyotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky , a famous Russian geographer and director of the Central Statistical Bureau, and was approved by Czar Nicholas II in 1895. The census was performed in two stages. For the first stage (December 1896 — January 1897) the counters (135,000 persons: teachers, priests, and literate soldiers) visited all households and filled in

3256-480: The peasant class. For this, they were suspected of being liberal radicals (and some were) which resulted in persecution of the police. The term 'third element' was coined by Vice Governor Vladimir Kondoidi in 1900, to refer to radical zemstvo employees in Samara . He charged that the third element had largely taken control of the actual operations of the zemstvo. The zemstvo board has no choice but to rely exclusively on

3330-459: The proceedings and suspend electoral decisions. Election reform in 1890 resulted in separate electoral bodies for the noble and ignoble voters. At this time, the clergy, Jews, and non-landowning peasants were deprived of the right to vote in zemstvo elections. Part of the motivation for the election reform was a decline in land ownership of the nobles which resulted in too few nobles to fill the deputy and assembly roles. These election reforms decreased

3404-416: The purpose of preventing fires. These powers were expanded in 1879 to allow regulation to prevent the spread of epidemics and zoological diseases. From 1864 to 1889, zemstvos elected the justices of the peace . Following this period the zemskii nachalnik position was created. The zemskii nachalnik was appointed by the local nobility but the zemstvo was required to pay his salary. This was unpopular with

3478-557: The questionnaires, which were verified by local census managers. For the second stage (9 January 1898 [ O.S. 28 December 1897]) the counters simultaneously visited all households to verify and update the questionnaires. The census was performed during winter as the population was less mobile then. Despite this being the only imperial census, historians are able to estimate the Russian Empire's population during earlier times by collecting city censuses. The data processing required 8 years using Hollerith card machines. Publication of

3552-409: The quorum. This was in part because officials were not allowed to receive a salary or other compensation for their position. The 1890 reforms also expanded the nobility's representation in the zemstvos from 55% in 1886 to 72% by 1903. Some historians represent the equality in terms of the amount of land one member of the zemstvo represented. In 1877, each peasant assembly member represented 1.76 times

3626-475: The results started during 1898 and ended in 1905. In total, 119 volumes for 89 guberniyas , as well as a two-volume summary, were issued. The questionnaire contained the following questions: In the census summary tables, nationality was based on the declared primary language of respondents. The total population of the Russian Empire was recorded to be 125,640,021 people, 62,477,348 or 49.73% of whom were men and 63,162,673 or 50.27% were women—the median age

3700-473: The size of assemblies and number of deputies 20-30%. Zemstvo assemblies met at least once a year for not more than twenty days. Extraordinary meetings of a zemstvo required permission from the Minister of the Interior and could only consider the specific issues on which the Minister permitted them. Provincial meetings were opened and closed by the local governor while the district meetings were opened and closed by

3774-698: The style of debate among zemstvo gentry changed; what began as consensus building and doing favors for friends and family turned into partisan parliamentary politics more typical of 20th century governance. The All-Russian Zemstvo Union was set up in August 1914 to provide a common voice for all the zemstvos. It was a liberal organisation which after 1915 operated in conjunction with the Union of Cities . In 1917 rural societies in Stavropol refused to pay taxes and boycotted schools, medical centers, and all other services after

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3848-399: The taxes and the sphere of activity of zemtsvo institutions which were only in their first year of existence, noticed the exceptional increase in local taxes. During the Russian Revolution , the zemstvos lost all authority and the only real authority remaining in Russia was the soviets . The zemstvo elections were boycotted because the people considered the soviets as the authority. Much of

3922-430: The third element, since there is no participation in the assembly at all. In this regard, the upcoming session terrifies me. The governor of Samara subsequently lead an investigation which discovered that over half of the current zemstvo employees had never been submitted to the governor for approval as required by law. Literacy rose from 10% to 68% during the existence of the zemstvo system. The zemstvo education system

3996-661: The three Baltic governorates , the nine western governorates annexed from Poland by Catherine II , in most of Caucasus , and in Finland . Created in 1875 after much consultation with Cossack officials, the zemstvos of the Don Host Oblast collapsed and were abolished after six years of operation. By 1913 there were zemstvos in 43 governorates. Zemstvos were originally restricted from making binding rules on every citizen within their jurisdiction. In 1873, zemstvos were permitted to make binding regulation on every citizen strictly for

4070-407: The voice of the zemstvo to reach the throne. The Emperor considered this a senseless dream. The Minister of Interior expressly forbade zemstvo officials from Tver from contacting other provinces on any issue of national politics. In 1866, the Senate ruled that zemstvos were not allowed to tax industrial output. As time went on, additional gubernatorial oversight was placed on zemstvos. In 1867,

4144-417: The zemstvo considered. Alexander II instituted these bodies in 1864. The original decree made 33 provincial zemstvos with administrative regions corresponding to existing governorships. Each provincial governorship was divided into several districts with each district administered by their district zemstvo. The law creating the zemstvo outlined 14 objectives for each zemstvo to accomplish. They consisted of

4218-419: The zemstvo medical system, Russian peasants mostly relied on faith healers specializing in magical chants and remedies for their medical care. The zemstvos viewed raising support for medical systems as their first most important task. Therefore, the zemstvo medical system became as much a popular movement for supporting an ideal as an actual service. To accomplish this, the zemstvos promoted policies that limited

4292-400: The zemstvo was first introduced there. Rising tensions resulted in three protesters being killed by the police and the zemstvo remaining in power. Their governor reported: The dissatisfaction of the rural population with the introduction of the zemstvo was evident almost everywhere in the province shortly after the distribution of the tax lists. The peasants, being insufficiently informed about

4366-503: The zemstvo's resources. Overtime, these were mostly converted into monetary taxes. This policy was also not popular as the zemstvos were often seen by contemporary peasants as worthless institutions that raised a lot of taxes. The zemstvo executive boards were highly involved in the administration of the staff working for the zemstvo. These staff were professional experts from the Intelligentsia known as 'the third element'. Aside from

4440-448: The zemstvo. However, there was significant difficultly in actually collecting because the zemstvo had no control over the police, and the assemblies were forbidden from awarding police including even thanking them. In the beginning of the zemstvo system, natural obligations such as road work and like kind taxes such as wheat, were of greater concern to the peasants than monetary taxation. These taxes were unpopular and formed large part of

4514-410: The zemstvo. The assembly tried to lower the salary which became the subject of several lawsuits in the Senate. From 1866 to 1905, zemstvo officials were largely prevented from contracting each other on the ground that these were local organizations. Occasional exemptions were made for fire reinsurance contracts or large agricultural machinery sales. In 1902, zemstvo leaders petitioned Nicholas II for

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4588-522: The zemstvos became more focused on protecting the interests of the nobility than addressing the grievances of 1905. The rules governing elections to the zemstvos were taken as a model for the electoral law of 1906 and are sufficiently indicated by the account of this given below. The zemstvos were originally given large powers in relation to the incidence of taxation and such questions as education, medical relief, public welfare , food supply, and road maintenance in their localities, but radicals , such as

4662-474: The zemstvos were prevented from publishing minutes or debates unless given specific permission by the governor. In 1879, the governors were given the power to dismiss any zemstvo employee at their discretion. The largest single change in the zemstvos powers came from Alexander III (law of 25 June [ O.S. 12 June] 1890). The 1890 law instituted the Bureau of Zemstvo Affairs as additional oversight of

4736-508: The zemstvos. Bureau officials were appointed by the emperor and from local governments officials such as Marshall of the Nobility, district prosecutor, and district courts. Procedures were still led by the governor. The bureau overturned 116 zemstvo enactments during the 1891 to 1892 year with 51 of these enactments from the Vladimir Provincial Assembly alone. This reform also gave zemstvos the power to issue binding regulation on

4810-562: Was 21.16 years. Largest cities of the Empire according to the census: Each enumeration form was copied twice, with the three copies filed in the Volost (county) archives, the governorate archives, and the Central Statistical Bureau in St. Petersburg. The copies in St. Petersburg were destroyed after they had been tabulated. Most of the copies stored locally and regionally have also been destroyed; however,

4884-415: Was a contemporaneously known issue during the zemstvo period because nearly one in two peasant children did not reach adulthood. This is a notable area in which the zemstvos failed. At the peak of midwifery during the zemstvo system, only 2% of births were attended. The primary cause of this failure was peasant women did not want strangers involved in their labor. Defunct Zemstvos were created as part of

4958-403: Was an increasing professionalism through more formal training as physicians assistants. Sanitary councils began meeting in the 1870s, but were not effective until after 1879 when zemstvos gained the power to issue sanitary legislation binding on all citizens. Moscow was a particular leader in the development of sanitary councils and then full time bureau of sanitation professionals. Midwifery

5032-502: Was built on top of the existing peasant and clerical education systems. From 1907 to 1917, the Ministry of Education developed control over the education system. Beginning in 1886 and continuing throughout the existence of zemstvos, the central bureaucracy sought and found additional control over primary education. This started with special school inspections which could result in the closing of unsatisfactory schools. The Marshall of Nobility

5106-714: Was discussed at the First All-Russian Congress of Statisticians, and in 1876, at the eighth session of the International Statistical Congress. On 26 February 1877, the draft of "Regulations on the General National Census", which was developed by a commission under the Ministry of Finance , was submitted to the State Council ; however, it was not discussed there, possibly due to the Russo-Turkish War that occurred from 1877 to 1878. In

5180-407: Was expected to act as a plaintiff and prove that the zemstvo's enactment was unjust. The governor could also revoke their approval and begin this process after a enactment had taken effect. After 1890 with expanded oversight powers, the Ministry of Interior began to consistently obstruct the work of provincial zemstvos. The 10th objective, distribution of state funds assigned to zemstvos was one of

5254-454: Was given special privileges such as school inspections, sole authority to open new schools, and chair positions on school boards in the 1874 primary school legislation, but these privileges did not have a large effect on schools because most zemstvos never ceded financial control over the schools to the school boards and many of the supposed inspections simply never occurred. Peasants mostly supported zemstvo schools over existing schools created by

5328-485: Was no one else to provide medical care. This was widely known and tolerated by all, but the increasing criminality of the feldsher work symbolized what the zemstvo medical system still needed to achieve. One reason for the zemstvos' opposition to feldshers was they blurred the lines between the traditional spiritual medicine and modern medicine. Rather than fading away, the feldsher practice was opened to women in 1871 to meet growing needs. Alongside growing numbers of feldshers

5402-495: Was performed during household and other surveys of zemstvos . In 1871, under the general editorship of the professor of military statistics, Nikolai Obruchev , officers of the General Staff published a military statistical collection, the four-volume edition of which contained data on the population of Russia as a whole, and was categorised by governorates and okrugs . In 1870, the project for an all-Russian population census

5476-478: Was performed in most of the empire, no enumeration was done in the Grand Duchy of Finland . The census revealed the social class, native language, religion, and profession of citizens, which were aggregated to yield district and provincial totals. The data processing took eight years; publishing the results began in 1898 and was completed in 1905. In total, 119 books in 89 volumes were published for 89 governorates in

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