Атлас народонаселения Западно-русского края.., 1864

Pompei Nikolaevich Batiushkov (artilleryman/mapmaker/government official in Kovno guberniya) –  Aleksandr Fyodorivich Rittikh (mapmaker/lieutenant colonel/ethnographer).

(Atlas of Confessions [Religions] Compiled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Head Office of the Organization of Orthodox Churches in the Western Provinces), 2nd Edition, St. Petersburg, prepared 1862-64, and based on a combination of data compiled by the Russian Orthodox church and German statisticians like Petr Keppen. The atlas has an overall map of western Russia, and nine individual guberniya maps of (four are shown here). Each guberniya map has two parts: a color image of the area corresponding to the percentage of each confession, and details on the number of inhabitants of both sexes in each district. The seven listed confessions (both Batiushkov and Rittikh contributed): Roman Catholic, Greek-Uniate, Orthodox, Old Believers, Protestants, Jews and Muslims. The ten categories for “tribes” (Rittikh’s primary focus in the atlas): Zhmud (Samogitians), Lithuanians, Kurpaks, Mazurians, Poles, Great Russians, White Russians, Germans, Jews and Tatars.  Statistical tables were in French, German Latin, Russian and Polish. The impetus for creation of the atlas was insurrection in Poland and historic Lithuania against forced conscription into the Russian military. The “January Uprising” (Pol.: powstanie styczniowe; Lith.: 1863 m. sukilimas, Bel.: Паўстанне 1863-
1864 гадоў) occurred in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,beginning in Poland on 22 January 1863, and in the former Grand Duchy beginning  February 1, where it was led by Zygmunt Sierakowski, Antanas Mackevičius and Konstanty Kalinowski.The last insurgents were captured in 1864. The atlas was used to identify non-Russian peoples and religions for Russification, and as source material for the 1897 All-Russian census.