CONFESSIONAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS - TRAINING CENTERS OF THE KRYASHEN INTELLIGENCE (THE LATTER HALF OF THE 19th - EARLY 20th CENTURES)
The article examines the role of pedagogical educational institutions with a bilingual teaching system, created by Orthodox enlighteners on the basis of the system of N.I. Ilminsky in the formation of the Kryashen (Baptized-Tatar) intelligentsia in the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries. The formation and development of primary and secondary specialized educational institutions are analyzed, the setting of the upbringing and educational process in them, and their influence on the cultural and intellectual development of the young generation of Kryashens are studied. The author comes to the conclusion that the network of educational institutions created by Orthodox missionaries in the second half of the 19th - early 20th centuries played a key role in the formation of the Kryashen intelligentsia, which became an important factor in the cultural modernization of the Kryashen community and the formation of a special Kryashen ethno-confessional identity.