The following is a list, taken in 1747, of all the males who paid the capitation or poll-tax:--
Peasants incorporated with the merchants and handicrafts 1950
Peasants called Odonoskis, who contribute to maintain the militia 430220
Others who do not contribute thereto 26080
Workmen of different trades, whose parents are not known 1000
Others who are not incorporated with the companies of tradesmen 4700
Peasants immediately dependent on the crown, about 555000
Persons employed in the mines belonging to the crown, partly Christians, partly Mahometans and Pagans 64000
Other peasants belonging to the crown, who work in the mines, and in private manufactories 24200
Mourses, Tartars, Mordauts, and others, whether Pagans or Christians, employed by the admiralty 7800
Tartars subject to contribution, called Tepteris, Bobilitz, &c. 28900
Bondmen to several merchants, and other privileged persons, who though not landholders, are allowed to have slaves 9100
Peasants in the lands set apart for the support of the crown 418000
Peasants on the lands belonging to her majesty, independently of the rights of the crown 60500
Peasants on the lands confiscated to the crown 13600
Bondmen belonging to the assembly of the clergy, and who defray other expenses 37500
Bondmen belonging to convents, whose numbers were reduced by Peter the Great 721500
Bondmen belonging to cathedral and parish churches 23700
Peasants employed as labourers in the docks of the admiralty, or in other public works, about 4000
Labourers in the mines, and in private manufactures 16000
Peasants on the lands assigned to the principal manufactures 14500
Labourers in the mines belonging to the crown 3000
Sectaries called Raskolniky 2200 ------- Total 6646390 -------
Here we have a round number of six millions six hundred forty-six thousand three hundred and ninety male persons, who pay the poll-tax. In this number are included boys and old men, but girls and women are not reckoned, nor boys born between the making of one register of the lands and another. Now, if we only reckon triple the number of heads subject to be taxed, including women and girls, we shall find near twenty millions of souls.
To this number we may add the military list, which amounts to three hundred and fifty thousand men: besides, neither the nobility nor clergy, who are computed at two hundred thousand, are subject to this capitation.