Historical sources proposed for publication from the funds of the Russian Historical Archive of Ancient Acts characterize the stay of Bishop Innokentiy (Nerunovich) in Yakutsk order, who became the first diocesan bishop to visit Yakutsk district. The documents testify to both the administrative and missionary activities of the bishop, including his appeals to the local authorities on the persecution of the shahs and provision of privileges for exemption from yasachnoy service issued by the imperial decree, for those who accepted Orthodox Christianity XVIII century as the initial stage of incorporation of the Yakut society in the Russian statehood, an element of which was the Christianization of the local population.

Yurganova Inna Igorevna, Doctor of Sciences (History), Leading Researcher Fellow, Institute of the Humanities and Indigenous Peoples of the North SB RAS, 1, Petrovsky st., Yakutsk, 677009, Russian Federation, tel.: 8(4112) 354-996, е-mail: inna.yurganova@mail.ru

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