I followed the link from familysearch, thinking I'd be able to do a search of the actual 1897 census! Where is it?!?!?!
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Several countries took a census of their populations in 1901.
These included the United Kingdom, Canada, and the Russian Empire.
Each country stores surviving records from that activity in a
different location.
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Depends what Russian Empire you are talking about...
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the Russian empire
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the Russian empire is bigger than the sovient union