ON THE QUANTITY AND NATIONAL COMPOSITION OF ROMAN CATHOLIC COMMUNITY OF ST. PETERSBURG IN THE FIRST HALF OF XVIII CENTURY

Abstract

On the basis of poorly-studied archival and published documents, domestic and foreign literature, the article analyzes the quantity and national composition of Roman Catholic community of St. Petersburg in the first half of XVIII century. The exact quantity of community in 1720-1740-ies has been specified. The author marked out national groups and made an attempt to ascertain correlation of quantity of these groups. The author has come to the conclusion that increase of quantity of Community was unstable by the reason of political situation susceptibility. During the first half of XVIII century Catholics made up the minor part of population of St. Petersburg (3,5-4,6 % in 1725 and about 2,1 % in 1750). The community was a multi-ethnic structure in witch groups of Germans, French, Poles and Italians were allocated. Germans were the most numerous.