(5) Servians, Bulgarians, and other Slavs, inhabiting especially
Bessarabia and the country called New Russia. Their number reaches
150,000.
II. The Non-Sclavonic races comprise either original inhabitants
of the country who have been subdued by the Russians, or later
comers. Among races originally inhabiting the country, and subjugated
by the Russians, are included--the Lithuanians and Letts, the Finns,
the Samoyeds, the Mongol-Manzhurians, the races of eastern Siberia,
the Turko-Tartar, the Caucasian, the German, and the Hebrew.
1. The Lithu-Lettish race inhabits the country between the western
Dwina and the Nieman. In numbers they do not amount to more than
3,000,000. The Lithu-Lettish population is divided into the two
following branches:--
(a) The Lithuanians properly so called (including the Samogitans
or Zhmudes), who inhabit the Governments of Vilno, Kovno, Courland,
and the northern parts of those of Augustovo and Grodno (1,900,000).
(b) The Letts, who inhabit the Governments of Courland, Vitebsk,
Livonia, Kovno, Pskov, and St. Petersburg (1,100,000).
2. The Finnish race--known in the old Sclavonic chronicles under
the name of Chouds--at one time inhabited all the north-eastern part
of Russia. The Finns, according to the place of their habitation,
are divided into four groups:--the Baltic Finns, the Finns in the
Governments of the Volga, the Cis-Oural and the Trans-Oural Finns.
(a) The Baltic Finns: the Chouds (in the Governments of Novgorod
and Olonetz); the Livonians (in Courland); the Esthonians (in the
Governments of Esthonia, Livonia, Vitebsk, Pskov, and St. Petersburg);
the Lopari (in northern Finland and in the Government of Archangel);
the Corelians (in the Government of Archangel, Novgorod, Olonetz,
St. Petersburg, Tver, and Jaroslav); Evremeiseti (in the Governments
of Novgorod and St. Petersburg), Savakoti, Vod, and Izhora.
(b) To the Finns of the Governments of the Volga, who have become
almost lost in the Russians, belong the Cheremisians (in the Governments
of Kazan, Viatka, Kostroma, Nijni-Novgorod, Orenburg and Perm).
(c) To the Cis-Uralian Finns, who occupy the country from the borders
of Finland to the Oural, belong the Permiaks (in the Governments
of Viatka and Perm); Ziranians (in the Governments of Archangel
and Vologda); Votiaks (in the Governments of Viatka and Kazan);
and Vogoulichi (in the Governments of Perm).
(d) Among the Trans-Oural Finns are also to be numbered the Ziranians
and Vogoulichi (the first in the Government of Tobolsk, and the
second in the Governments of Tobolsk and Tomsk); and the Ostiaks,
who, according to the places of their habitation, are called Obski
and Berezovski.
The Finns amount altogether to 2,100,000.
3. The Samoyeds, in number 70,000, live in the territory extending
from the White Sea to the Yenesei; to these belong the Samoyeds
properly so called, the Narimski and the Yenesei Ostiaks, the Olennie
Choukchi, etc.
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