Lutheran population of Saint Petersburg in the first half of the 18th century according to the parish marriage registers

Based on the marriage registers of the Lutheran congregation of St. Peter and Vasileostrovskaya community (in the future - St. Catherine) the article recreates the models of national and social structures of Petersburg Lutherans in the first half of the 18th century. The author found that German communities included, in addition to Germans, a small percentage of Swedes and Poles. By the middle of the century, with the total number of Lutheran communities in St. Petersburg in 1500- 1700 believers of both sexes, they could contain about 1200-1300 persons of German nationality, 150-200 Finns, about a hundred Swedes, several dozen people (no more than fifty) Germanized Polish. The article makes a clear conclusion that among the Petersburg Lutherans had predominated craftsmen of working professions and clerks. They may have numbered more than seven hundred in the middle of the 18th century. The military, merchants, and officials were represented in much smaller proportions.