The analysis of S. V. Lyubichankovski’s monographs is presented in the review, in which the problem of the use of the education system under the Islamic data in the Russian Empire to the solution of public problems at the regional level is studied. The authors of the review note the importance of the research done by the historian, the peculiarities of the author’s approach, the controversial issues raised in the work. In the reviewer’s opinion, the monograph of S. V. Lyubichankovski basically opens up new perspectives for the study of the politics of acculturation on the outlying territories of the Russian Empire.