ETHNOCONFESSIONAL STEREOTYPES IN EVERYDAY LIFE OF THE PREREVOLUTIONARY RUSSIAN SOCIETY (ON JUDICIAL-INVESTIGATIVE MATERIALS OF SIMBIRSK GUBERNIA OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 19<sup>th</sup> - BEGINNING OF THE 20<sup>th</sup> CENTURIES)
Lawsuits on abusing and abomination of faith and church, kept in the holdings of the State archives of Ulyanovsk region in the second half of the 19<sup>th</sup> - beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> centuries, are being analysed. The role of prevailing, in prerevolutionary Russia, ethnic and confessional stereotypes in everyday life and in conflict situations between representatives of different confessions and ethnic groups, is being considered. It is noted that verbal and behavioral demonstrations of ethnoconfessional stereotypes did not always coincide. In the majority of cases, the actions qualified by prerevolutionary courts as religious crimes, did not have an intentional character and in fact have most often been provoked by conflict interaction on interpersonal and work basis.