The Orthodox Church and the Marginal Policy of the Empire (Based on the Materials of Siberia of the Late 19th – Early 20th Centurу)

The article examines the importance of the Orthodoxy spread in Siberia as one of the incorporation forms of the Asian Russia peoples into the economic, administrative and socio-cultural space of the Russian Empire. The evolution of these methods is noted, associated with the changing tasks of the political construction of the empire and the development of commodity–money relations in the economy, everyday life and social relations among the indigenous population of the region during the 18th – early 20th centuries. It is emphasized that in the Russian colonization model of the eastern outskirts of the empire, political and socio-cultural goals associated with the spread of Orthodoxy mutually complemented each other. This was another difference between Russia's colonization policy towards the outskirts of the state and the colonial empires of the West