PERSONAL LIFE STORY AS A SOURCE FOR THE STUDY OF CHURCH-STATE RELATIONSHIPS IN RUSSIA IN THE EARLY 20<sup>TH</sup> CENTURY
The article presents the results of the interdisciplinary study of the unique manuscript “Detailed description of life and adventures of Seventh-Day Adventist and Sabbath celebration sectarian Yakov Belikov”, 1908-1909, from the Research and Historical Archive of the State Museum of the History of Religion. The modern methodology is used for personalization of historical research subject. The reconstruction of life of a historical character is used as a tool for the study of social and political processes and church-state relationships in the Russian Empire in the early 20<sup>th</sup> century.