Suicide in St. Petersburg in the second half of XIX century: the magnitude, trends and problems of the undercount

Consider the dynamics of suicides in the capital of the Russian Empire during the second half of the XIX century. Shows the distribution of deaths from suicide on the floor. A comparison is made of the level of suicides in St. Petersburg with most other large cities in the European part of the country in 1870-1894. The problem of the omission of the official police statistics of cases of violent death (homicide and suicide) in the capital of the state.