20-24
RELIGIOUS STRUCTURES POPULATION TAURIDE PROVINCE SECOND HALF OF XIX CENTURY (CONTAINED IN THE FIRST GENERAL CENSUS OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN 1897)
Authors: Мuradasilova Shevkie Mensitovna RHI «Crimean University of Humanities» (Yalta), Assistant of the Department of History and Jurisprudence (Crimea)
Number of views: 746
ABSTRACT
The religious issue in Ukraine has recently attracted more and more attention, because to build democratic relations in the country, excluding religious features without establishing relations with the church impossible.
Socio-political and demographic processes in the period from the end of XIX century. shaped the modern confessional structure of the Crimean region, today the most religiously mosaic region of Ukraine, on whose territory the acts 1365 thousand religious organizations, religious leaders, various trends and tendencies. It is home to more than 80 ethnic groups. The bulk of the population is ethnic Russian and Ukrainians. A special group of local population are people of the Crimean Tatars, Armenians, Karaites, Krymchaks, Greeks, Germans, Bulgarians, etc.
In Soviet historiography today almost no special general works on the religious structure of the population Tauride province, however, there is literature that addresses some aspects of the problems. So urgent is the analysis of the confessional structure of the population Tauride province the second half of the XIX century. Based on the first general census of the Russian Empire in 1897
Taurian province – a region with a complex history of religious development. Historical feature is that a relatively small area at the same time there existed various religious denominations, the dominant Orthodox denominations and sects and ethnic minorities, who have had their relatively wide scale peninsula religious sphere, as well as autonomous sectarian administrative authorities , who spread their power on the territory of the province or its individual regions, which led to the need for religious policy against believers, precise regulation of their rights and responsibilities.
The territorial scope of the study defined territory Tauride province of the Russian Empire. In the administrative-territorial structure of the province allocated 8 counties and two city government, including the Crimean peninsula 5 counties – Simferopol, Perekop, Feodosia, Evpatoria, Yalta and 2 city government – Simferopol, Kerch-Yenikalsky; and three northern county (Berdyansk, Dnieper, Melitopol).
So, in the Tauride province absolute advantage over the representatives of other religions were representatives of Orthodoxy (73.9 %). Orthodox population consisted of a neighboring province in South Ukraine, immigrants from central and northern Ukrainian provinces of the empire, as well as part of the settlers of the Great Russian provinces. Among Orthodox Christians held a majority ethnic Ukrainian and Russian , as well as the majority of Belarusians, Greeks, Bulgarians, Moldovans, Gypsies and others.
Also, to a large enough group classifies Mohammedan religious (13.2 %), which were mainly represented by the Tatars (98.4 %), Turks (0,9 %), Roma (0.6 %).
To substantially smaller in size unlike the Orthodox and Mohammedan, but significant enough in the confessional structure of the province were Protestants (4.7 %). Among them are Lutherans (2.95 %), Mennonites (1.7 %), reformers (0.02 %), Anglicans (0.0076 %) and Baptists (0.0075 %). On the ethnic factor formed from the Germans and Estonians. Thus, the main link among Protestant Germans occupy.
In the confessional structure of the population Tauride province also treated the Jews (4.2 %) and Roman Catholics (2 %). On the ethnic component Roman Catholics were represented Germans, Poles, Ukrainians, Czechs, French and Italians.
From the results of population Tauride province can say that the most populous is dominant in the Russian Empire, the Orthodox confession. Summing up, we can say that the situation with religious affiliation of national minorities on the territory of the Tauride province partly reflected confessional of imperial policy.
To substantially smaller in size unlike the Orthodox and Mohammedan, but significant enough in the confessional structure of the province were Protestants ( 4.7%). Among them are Lutherans (2.95 %), Mennonites (1.7 %), reformers (0.02 %), Anglicans (0.0076 %) and Baptists (0.0075 %). On the ethnic factor formed from the Germans and Estonians. Thus, the main link among Protestant Germans occupy.
Keywords: Taurian province, census, creed, confession, Orthodoxy, Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism and Judaism.