Abstract
The article discusses the issue of historiography of the problem of Christianization of the population of the Kazakh Territory, including Turkestan, within the Russian Empire, which saw the Russian Orthodox Church as one of the strongholds in the conduct of colonial policy in Turkestan. Christianization included a number of missionary activities, the main purpose of which was the spread of Orthodoxy, the baptism of the Gentiles, changing their socio-cultural environment through Russification, the transition to a sedentary lifestyle, etc. authorities in the religious sphere. Kazakh scientists unequivocally prove that missionary activity led to the persecution of Islam in the steppe, to the erosion of the ethnic and confessional identification of the Kazakhs, since the change of religion led to excommunication from the Kazakh society, nomadic lifestyle and language, that is, led to russification.
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