Multicultural Society of the Russian State – Based on the Materials of the First All-Russian Census

Based on the materials of the First General Census of the Russian Empire in 1897 and the work of pre-revolutionary authors the paper considers the obtained data, the historically established multiculturalism of the Russian state is statistically confirmed. It is shown that the territorial expansion of the Empire was due to the inclusion of peoples, including those who already had stable and distinctly formed ethnic, religious and, accordingly, cultural differences.

Keywords: civilizational differences, population size, religious composition, ethnic composition, types of economic and economic activity, regional section, Turkestan.