Development of the accounting of the population of the Russian Empire (XVIII-XIX century)

The monograph covers a wide range of issues related to the study of the mechanism of state accounting of subjects of the Russian Empire. The reasons for the transition to the per capita form of the inhabitants of the country at the beginning of the 18th century were considered, the evolution of the revisial office work, its complication and improvement was traced. The audits were supplemented by numerous surveys of the population conducted on the initiative of individual ministries and departments, regional authorities, local authorities, were associated with the beginning of the registration of the natural movement of the population by the Russian Orthodox Church, etc. The role of demographic information in the formation of the main directions of the state’s internal policy.
addressed to all readers interested in the demographic history of our country