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The Russian Census.

--The total population of Russia is 79,000,000. The lower orders, serfs, petty traders and artisans, form a total of 53,500,000; the nobles and the higher guilds of traders, about 1,000,000. The nobles still possess 21,000,000 of serfs. The population of Siberia, including the wandering tribes of Kagan, Astrakhan, and Orenburg, is 4,000,000.

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