Ogden Daily Standard | 1906-07-14 | Page 1 | Membership of the Russian Parliament

THE RUSSIAN NEARLY TWO HUNDRED MEMBERS NEVER WENT TO SCHOOL twenty two distinct peoples and many religions are represented in the body at petersburg july 14 A special commission of parliament appointed to collect statistics regarding membership of the lower house has completed its report in which some interesting facts are shown twenty two distinct people aro represented in this remarkable body divided as follows great russians attle russians 62 white russians 12 poles 51 lith uan lans 10 letts 6 germans 4 tartars Tar tars 8 Bash kirs 4 1 1 finnish tribe on ilie volga 2 also finnish tribe 2 jews 13 bulgarian 1 chuvas 1 doumanian Rou manian 1 kalmuk 1 georgians 5 armenians Armen ians 4 Osee tines 1 burcats burlats Bur lats 2 by religions they are divided as follows russian orthodox catholics cs protestants 13 old believers 4 baptists 1 jews 11 madans 14 Buddhists 1 no religion 1 by classes the membership consists of noblemen peasants 14 clergy 20 merchants 12 cossacks 24 burghers 14 scattered with regard to education a large proportion in number never attended any kind of schools went through the lower grades went through the middle and either finished or partially partial lv finished university courses in spite of the large number who never attended school only two aro unable to read or write by parties the members ero classified as follows constitutional democrats group of toll autonomous 63 party of democratic reforms 4 oc 13 moderator 2 trade land industry 1 unclassified the average age of the members Is 39 ahen the elections in siberia and central asia are completed the duma hlll consist of members