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Moscow Governorate

1708–1929 unit of Russia

Summary

1708–1929 unit of Russia

Field	Value
name	Moscow Governorate
native_name	Московская губерния
native_name_lang	ru
settlement_type	Governorate
image_shield	Coat of Arms of Moscow Governorate 1856.svg
image_map	Moscow in Russian Empire (1914).svg
mapsize	225px
map_caption	Location in the Russian Empire
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Russian Empire
established_title	Established
established_date	1708
extinct_title	Abolished
extinct_date	1929
seat_type	Capital
seat	Moscow
area_total_km2	33272.84
population_as_of	1897
population_total	2,430,581
population_density_km2	auto
population_urban	46.67%
population_rural	53.33%
total_type	Total

Map of Moscow Governorate in 1873 with [[uyezd]]s

The Moscow Governorate was a province (guberniya) of the Tsardom of Russia, and the Russian Empire. It was 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 km2 and a population of 2,430,581 in 1897. Its capital was in Moscow.

Administrative division

The counties (uezds) of the Moscow Governorate in 1897 were as follows:

County	Capital	Area	Population
(1897 census)	Transliteration name	Russian Cyrillic
Bogorodsky	Богородскій	Bogorodsk (Noginsk)	3068.5 verst2	222,341
Bronnitsky	Бронницкій	Bronnitsy	2051 verst2	130,304
Vereysky	Верейскій	Vereya	1623.3 verst2	54,074
Volokolamsky	Волоколамскій	Volokolamsk	2138 verst2	80,984
Dmitrovsky Uyezd	Дмитровскій	Dmitrov	2974.6 verst2	119,686
Zvenigorodsky	Звенигородскій	Zvenigorod	2012.3 verst2	84,375
Klinsky	Клинскій	Klin	3095.9 verst2	115,162
Kolomensky	Коломенскій	Kolomna	1861.4 verst2	111,927
Mozhaysky	Можайскій	Mozhaysk	1621.5 verst2	53,967
Moskovsky	Московскій	Moscow	2393 verst2	1,203,926
Podolsky	Подольскій	Podolsk	2160.4 verst2	86,311
Ruzsky	Рузскій	Ruza	1984.1 verst2	55,522
Serpukhovsky	Серпуховскій	Serpukhov	2252.4 verst2	112,002

History

Moscow Governorate, together with seven other governorates, was established on , 1708, by Tsar Peter the Great's edict. 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. Later, Moscow Governorate was subdivided into 13 uyezds.

#	City	#	City	#	City
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.

Demography

Language

Population by mother tongue according to the Imperial census of 1897.

	Language		Number
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

According to the Imperial census of 1897.

	Religion		Number
Pravoslavs	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

Notes

References

[http://constitution.garant.ru/history/act1600-1918/2005/ Указ об учреждении губерний и о росписании к ним городов] {{in lang. ru
С. А. Тархов. (2001). "Изменение административно-территориального деления России за последние 300 лет". Электронная версия журнала "География".
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