The article deals with issues related to the situation of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia in the XIX - early XX centuries. It is shown that in Russia there has been a certain transformation of traditional values. These processes were under the direct influence of the Church on society and the state. The scientific problem solved in the article reveals many common factors with the current circumstances of the development of church-state relations in Russia, where the questions about the place of the state and the Church in the modified social and economic conditions come to the fore. The article defines the maneuverability of the spiritual hierarchy, both in the horizontal plane and in the vertical one, and the schemes for transferring the clergy to the church staircase are analyzed. Important social and demographic aspects of the activities of the Russian Church were reconstructed, which made it possible to establish the level of heterogeneity in the development of the clergy and its immediate prospects. Theoretical and scientific novelty is that the conclusions contained in the article can be applied to correct and improve functioning legislation in the sphere of interrelations between secular power and the Orthodox Church.

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