Modernization of the Russian Church Mission in Conditions of Religious Freedom (On the materials of the Samara Governorate)
This article deals with the functioning of the system of the eparchy mission of the Russian Orthodox Church after 1905. The attempts to reorganize the structure of missionary institutions and find new forms and methods of missionary work in conditions of religious freedom are considered in it on the basis of the materials of the Samara Governorate. The role of the Samara missionary Archpriest Dimitri Aleksandrov in the development of a new Regula­tion on the structure of the internal mission is emphasized in the article, as well as particular attention is paid to the financing of the mission and personnel problems.