Reconstruction in ethnosocial researches across northern Altai (XIXth - the beginnings of the XXth cc.)

Article is devoted to reconstruction of a role and a place of missionary schools in proselytical practicians of the Altai spiritual mission in the relation of the autochthonic population of the Northern Altai foothills. Research is written on the basis of archival documents of the State archive of Altai Krai. Documents contain data on pupils and teachers, educational programs and problems of school construction on Altai, dynamics of development of school business in the region etc. Accession of Siberia to the Russian Empire and, as a result, expansion of an area of moving of Russian people led to ethnocultural and ethnoconfessional interactions between indigenous people of the region and indigenous, first of all, Russian population. In 1828 the opening of the Altai spiritual mission became an important step on a way of a proselytism of indigenous people of the foothills of Northern Altai. Opening and the maintenance of schools were carried out in most cases by mission from the means. Expansion of a network of school establishments demanded before the mission management the solution of a personnel problem. For these tasks it was created the Ulalinsky Missionary central school transformed to Katekhizatorsky school and transferred to Biisk in 1883. As a whole initially school construction in the considered region meant the solution of two tasks: missionary and pedagogical. The missionary field of activity of teachers assumed some components: education of true Christians, involvement of school students to proselytical practicians, Christian influence on the surrounding population. Late the third task was issued: education of own shots, including from among indigenous people of the region. The contribution of missionary schools to a proselytism of the autochthonic population of the foothills of Northern Altai is doubtless. During the period the mission existence on Altai the quantity of the accepted Orthodoxy increased with 300 to several tens of thousands. The considerable part of the accepted Orthodoxy of the region was made by natives of the foothills of Northern Altai. If in 1886 number of the accepted Orthodoxy on Makaryevsky and Kebezensky offices made 2654, in 1913 in 6 offices of the mission covering the same territory, lived 7331. The pedagogical task interfaced to the solution of personnel problems of mission wasn't less successfully realized.

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