State-legal regulation of educational activity of Old Believers of the Perm province in the XIX - early XX century
The article analyzes the measures of the state-confessional policy of the Russian Empire in relation to the education of children of Old Believers in the 19<sup>th</sup> - early 20<sup>th</sup> centuries and their implementation in the Perm province. It is concluded that the religious policy of the state in relation to the education of the children of Old Believers was inconsistent and underwent all the fluctuations of the government course: from discriminatory measures in the second quarter of the 19<sup>th</sup> century until the softening of the policy of the authorities in the second half of the century. The conclusion is made about the ineffectiveness of prohibitive measures of the state in relation to teachers and schools of Old Believers, about a certain discrepancy in legislation and its application in the Perm province. The article provides data on the number of Old Believers' students in various schools of the Perm province at the beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, which indicates that only a small number of Old Believers preferred education in state educational institutions to traditional home education.