MISSIONARY ACTIVITY OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN RUSSIA

The article discusses the missionary activities of the Orthodox Church in Russia. It has been revealed that the Christianization of the non-Russian peoples of Russia was a complex and controversial problem, since missionary activity affected the most important, defining aspects of the ethnos life, such as ideology, traditions, customs and way of life. Special attention is paid to the enlightenment of the Orthodox faith of many peoples of Siberia, who were representatives of various religious beliefs: paganism, Islam, Buddhism. To work with them, the Church developed a set of measures that contributed to the conversion of these peoples to Orthodoxy.

Methods
When writing an article, the authors were guided by the principles of historicism, science and objectivity. In solving research problems, both general scientific methods (analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction, abstraction, concretization, idealization, generalization) and traditional methods of historical analysis (historical-genetic, historical-typological, comparative-historical, historical-functional). When collecting materials, the main role was played by the method of archival research.