Moscow Governorate Московская губерния | |||||||||
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Governorate of the Russian Empire | |||||||||
1708–1929 | |||||||||
Location in the Russian Empire | |||||||||
Capital | Moscow | ||||||||
Area | |||||||||
• 1897 | 33,272.84 km2 (12,846.72 sq mi) | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• 1897 | 2,430,581 | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | 1708 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1929 | ||||||||
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Moscow Governorate[a] was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia, and the Russian Empire. It bordered by Tver Governorate to the north, Vladimir Governorate to the northeast, Ryazan Governorate to the southeast, Tula Governorate to the south, Kaluga Governorate to the southwest, and Smolensk Governorate to the west. Moscow Governorate consisted of an area of 33,272.84 square kilometres (12,846.72 sq mi) and a population of 2,430,581 in 1897. Its capital was in Moscow.
Moscow Governorate consisted of 13 uyezds (their administrative centres in brackets):
Moscow Governorate, together with seven other governorates, was established on December 29 [O.S. December 18], 1708, by Tsar Peter the Great's edict.[1] As with the rest of the governorates, initially, neither the borders nor internal subdivisions of Moscow Governorate were defined; instead, the territory was defined as a set of cities and the lands adjacent to those cities.[2] Later, Moscow Governorate was subdivided into 13 uyezds.
# | City | # | City | # | City |
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1. | Moscow | 14. | Lyubim | 27. | Suzdal |
2. | Aleksin | 15. | Medyn | 28. | Tarussa |
3. | Borovsk | 16. | Mikhaylov | 29. | Tsarev Borisov |
4. | Dedilov | 17. | Mozhaysk | 30. | Tula |
5. | Dmitrov | 18. | Obolensk | 31. | Veneva |
6. | Gremyachey | 19. | Pecherniki | 32. | Vereya |
7. | Kaluga | 20. | Pereslavl Ryazanskoy | 33. | Volodimir |
8. | Klin | 21. | Pereslavl Zaleskoy | 34. | Volokolamsk |
9. | Kolomna | 22. | Pronsk | 35. | Yaroslavets Maly |
10. | Koshira | 23. | Rostov | 36. | Yepifan |
11. | Kostroma | 24. | Ruza | 37. | Yuryev Polskoy |
12. | Krapivna | 25. | Serpukhov | 38. | Zaraysk |
13. | Lukh | 26. | Shuya | 39. | Zvenigorod |
The governorate underwent numerous changes in the following years, and was finally abolished on January 14, 1929 when modern Moscow Oblast was created.
Language | Number | percentage (%) | males | females |
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Russian | 2,371,102 | 97.5 | 1,181,296 | 1,189,806 |
German | 19,116 | 0.7 | 9,225 | 9,891 |
Polish | 10,960 | 0.4 | 7,676 | 3,284 |
Jewish | 5,756 | 0.2 | 3,795 | 1,961 |
Ukrainian | 5,506 | 0.2 | 4,838 | 668 |
Tatar | 5,469 | 0.2 | 4,492 | 977 |
French | 2,621 | 0.1 | 1,035 | 1,586 |
Armenian | 1,633 | 0.0 | 1,201 | 432 |
Belarusian | 1,292 | 0.0 | 948 | 344 |
English | 1,135 | 0.0 | 559 | 576 |
Latvian | 1,018 | 0.0 | 731 | 287 |
Lithuanian | 690 | 0.0 | 600 | 90 |
Czech | 636 | 0.0 | 397 | 239 |
Gypsy | 511 | 0.0 | 249 | 262 |
Estonian | 396 | 0.0 | 243 | 153 |
Italian | 374 | 0.0 | 220 | 154 |
Greek | 292 | 0.0 | 241 | 51 |
Swedish | 228 | 0.0 | 117 | 111 |
Chuvash | 152 | 0.0 | 147 | 5 |
Komi | 148 | 0.0 | 144 | 4 |
Bulgarian | 110 | 0.0 | 100 | 10 |
Other | 1,436 | 0.0 | 1,013 | 423 |
Total | 2,430,581 | 100.0 | 1,219,267 | 1,211,314 |
Religion | Number | percentage (%) | males | females |
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Pravoslavs[4] | 2,272,145 | 93.5 | 1,139,289 | 1,132,856 |
Old Believers and others split from Pravoslavs | 99,825 | 4.1 | 44,682 | 55,143 |
Lutherans | 21,437 | 0.8 | 10,701 | 10,736 |
Roman Catholic | 17,670 | 0.7 | 11,497 | 6,173 |
Judaism | 8,704 | 0.3 | 5,400 | 3,304 |
Islam | 5,605 | 0.2 | 4,678 | 927 |
Reformed | 2,218 | 0.0 | 1,088 | 1,130 |
Armenian Gregorians | 1,640 | 0.0 | 1,188 | 452 |
Anglicans | 838 | 0.0 | 441 | 397 |
Karaites | 347 | 0.0 | 210 | 137 |
Armenian Catholic Church | 25 | 0.0 | 18 | 7 |
Buddhists, Lamaists | 11 | 0.0 | 11 | 0 |
Mennonites | 3 | 0.0 | 3 | 0 |
Other: Christian denominations | 103 | 0.0 | 52 | 51 |
Other: non-Christians | 10 | 0.0 | 9 | 1 |
Total | 2,430,581 | 100.0 | 1,219,267 | 1,211,314 |