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The article presents an overview of the activities of the co–religionist clergy in the context of the struggle of the Russian Orthodox Church with the Old Believer schism in the Samara province of the second half of the XIX – early XX century. The co-faith is considered as a missionary platform, on the basis of which it became possible for Old Believers to reunite with Orthodoxy on the conditions of preserving the pre-Canonical liturgical practice.

Article is devoted a statistics problem Old believers. The author investigates government measures in this direction and answers thorny questions: what advantages and lacks why the statistics has not given desirable results at spent censuses of conservatives were. Also in article light is shed changes of number of supporters of old belief in the Kazan province in XIX and the beginning XX centuries, the old believe centres in province and on many other things.

Автор проводит компаративный анализ положения, деятельности
и влияния на население основных конфессиональных объединений и групп, представленных в Саратовском Поволжье, накануне революционных событий 1917 года. Опираясь в основном на ранее не вводившиеся в научный оборот архивные источники, автор приходит к выводу об уникальности Саратовского Поволжья как поликонфессионального региона с высокой степенью межконфессиональной толерантности.