Abstract
It is for the first time that data from the personal files of income tax payers has been used to study inequality in pre-revolutionary Russia. Decile dispersion ratio, a commonly used universal measure of income inequality in a society, has been calculated on the basis of this data. The figures obtained reinforce the pessimistic assessments of a high degree of inequality in pre-revolutionary Russia. At the same time, it is shown that the wealthy part of Russian society (which was subject to income tax) turned out to be quite democratic in terms of its professional composition.
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