Konfessional'naya politika Rossijskoj imperii v Kazahstane

Abstract

This article examines the religious policy of the Russian Empire on the territory of Kazakhstan in the second half of the 18th - early 20th centuries. If in the last third of the 18th century the Russian Empress supported Islam, in the 19th century there is a gradual process of strengthening the policy of Orthodoxy in the region. So, in 1881, the Kirghiz spiritual mission was established to Christianize the Kazakhs of the Semipalatinsk region, but the goal of Tsarism was not achieved. According to the census of 1897, only 660 Kazakhs were converted to Orthodoxy in six steppe regions. The article is based on archival materials.