THE small amount of real knowledge possessed by foreigners of the many various races which make up the population of Russia, combined with the interest universally felt at this moment in everything relating to that extensive Empire, has induced us to bring forward a descriptive account of the tribes occupying its surface, including all those nations who have been conquered by the dominant race, or absorbed into its body. This is accompanied by, and in some degree founded upon, the great Ethnological and Statistical Map of Russia which was published by the Imperial Geographical Society of St. Petersburg in the year 1852. General View of the Three Chief Constituent Stocks of the Russian Empire, the Ugrian, the Turk, the Sarmatian-Observations on the Terms-Geographical Relations of the Ugrians-Direction of Movements-Dimensions of the Ugrian Stock-Recognition of the Samoyeds as Ugrian-Of the Yeniseians and Yukahiri-Conspectus of the Three Stocks .....