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he question of the missionary activity of the antisplinter Brotherhood of St. Demetrius, Metropolitan of Rostov in the fight against the Old Believers in the territory of the Tomsk Diocese is considered. The author has studied a complex of rich and diverse archival sources, as well as activity reports of both the Brotherhood itself and its individual members, presented in official provincial and diocesan publications. Based on this, it was possible to recreate the overall «picture» of the Brotherhood and show its regional specificity. In particular, the purpose, composition of the Brotherhood, as well as the main directions of its missionary "anti-splinter" activity were determined. In order to combat the «schism» and the so-called «prevention of the avoidance of the schism», the brothers actively held religious disputes and interviews, both with the Old Believers themselves and the parishioners of the official Orthodox Church. Another missionary way to solve the tasks of the anti-splinter Brotherhood was to create and develop a network of «anti-splinter libraries» and parish schools. In general, despite the specific and concrete results of their anti-Old Believer missionary activities, the Brotherhood was not able to achieve its goals, including due to the regional specifics of the diocese.

The question of the practice of implementing state measures of secular and ecclesiastical authorities to combat the illegal marriage relations of the Old Believers on the example of the Tomsk province in the 19th century. The author has studied a rich complex of unique archival data, which made it possible to identify the specifics of the object under study within a specific region. In particular, it was revealed that the initiators in initiating cases of illegal cohabitation, primarily, were local ministers of the official Orthodox Church. At the same time, they demanded that the secular authorities take more decisive measures, namely of an administrative nature, in the fight against the consolidated marriages of the Old Believers. According to the firm conviction of the imperial authorities, unified marriages contributed to the "growth of the split," and, accordingly, in their opinion, one of the effective methods of easing the tendency toward a "split" is precisely the separation of persons who have married together. This process was often carried out using harsh police measures. However, in the end, imperial officials and clergymen were forced to state that neither spiritual convictions nor forceful influence brought the expected results.

The article analyzes the number and composition of the factory parishes' settlements of the Barnaul ecclesiastical government in the second half of the 18th — early 19th centuries. It is concluded that the parish territories were not stable. In 1750-1760 there was a process of settlements redistribution between parishes. This was due to the formation of factory churches network. In subsequent times, the boundaries of the parishes changed due to the emergence of new settlements in the study area. At the end of the period under study, the largest number of settlements was in the Vvedensky parish of the Novo-Pavlovsk plant (46), the second in terms of indicator was the Voskresensky parish of the Kolyvan plant (30). The remaining churches had a smaller number of settlements, comparable to each other (12-14).
It was revealed that most factory parishes were "formed" by two types of settlements: factory towns and villages. However, in the 1750s there was not a single rural settlement in the Peter and Paul parish of Barnaul, there were only residents of the factory. The Voskresensky parish of the Kolyvansky plant differed significantly in composition. It included the population of the factory, villages, mines and military fortifications (redoubts, outposts). The identified list of settlements will allow to build topologically correct territories of parishes using GIS tools in the future.