Our Sources

• The data on factories was extracted from a volume called the Index of factories of European Russia and the Kingdom of Poland: Material for factory statistics (Указатель фабрик и заводов европейской России и царства польскаго: материалы для фабрично-заводской статистики). It was compiled by Petr Aleksandrovich Orlov for the Department of Trade and Manufacture and published in Saint Petersburg in 1887. It is in the public domain, digitized by Google and available via HathiTrust. Access it here.
• Import data was extracted from annual volumes of the Survey of Russia's foreign trade (Обзор внешней торговли России) published on an annual basis by the Department of Customs (Ministry of Finance). Harvard Library holds many of the volumes spanning 1824-1915. We consulted them in the stacks. (Historians still do that sort of thing.) Consult the catalog entry here.
• We consulted the Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets (Oxford, 2015) edited by Darra Goldstein for descriptions of various confections. Consult the Harvard Library catalog entry here.

Looking to expand your knowledge?

• Take a look at Amanda Gregg's Imperial Russian Factory Database, 1894-1908. Gregg compiled data published in the factory censuses that came after the one we used for our project. The data is available for download with full documentation. Access the project here.
• Read Alison Smith's Recipes for Russia: Food and Nationhood under the Tsars (Northern Illinois University Press, 2011). Thank us later.