Ėrivan Gubernia Taxation

Overview
камеральное описание and Посемейные списки Research use: Identify residence, heads of household, and family size. Used in conjunction with parish registers to ensure that all family members are identified.

Record type: Civil record of inhabitants and their taxable possessions.

General: Compiled by Russian authorities after acquiring Armenia in the early 19th century to provide a basis for taxation.

Time period: 1829-1886.

Contents: Names and ages of male inhabitants, the number of people in each household, extent of land, type of crops, number of livestock, home industries if any, private or state village and taxes paid.

Location: Historical Archive, Yerevan.

Percentage in Family History Library: 100% of known lists.

Population coverage: 45% coverage of the population.

Accessibility: Originals available to researchers at the Historical Archive.

The following list is a work in progress. Unless otherwise noted, the lists are камеральное описание. Some Посемейные списки (family lists) will also be included.

See the FamilySearch Catalog for all available lists. Tax records may be cataloged under the country, province, or district level. Keep Russian Empire jurisdictions in mind! In the FamilySearch catalog, English versions of place names referring to Armenian cities during the Russian Empire time-period were typically created based on the Russian version of the name as it appeared in the 1880 gazetteer for Ėrivan Gubernia. See the ALA-LC Romanization table for Russian.

Note: Tax lists were not created every year. Lists are usually written out in Russian. Some years include parallel headings in Russian, Armenian, Azeri Turkish, and Georgian. Unless otherwise specified, the towns below (for the year 1873) were inhabited primarily by Armenians belonging to the Armenian Apostolic Church. Town names in the list below were standardized to follow the 1880 gazetteer.