Русская власть и коренное население Урала и Зауралья в XVII в.

Abstract

The article is devoted to one of the least explored subjects in the history of colonization of the Urals — the problem of the dissemination of Orthodoxy among the Indigenous population of the area. Using a great amount of sources the author among the indigenous population of the area. Using a great amount of sources the author analyses the policy of the Russian government and its practical consequences, the position of the Church the and of the local administration on the spread of Christianity in the Urals In the 17th century as well as the attitude of the first Russian colonizes and representatives of the native peoples of the region to such a complicated and contradictory process. The article dwells on a great amount petitions of the native people of the Urals and reflecting the life and the inner world of people at the time of the first Romanovs.