title: Socio-Political Aspects of Russian Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca in the XIX-Th Century
abstract: Starting from the middle of the 16-th century, during the foreign policy expansion increase, the ethno-confessional diversity of the Russian state was steadily increasing. The imperial policy aimed at assimilating non-Russian peoples sharply raised the issue of their identity preservation. For domestic Muslims, an important factor in cultural and confessional identity provision was the preservation and development of their traditional ties with the Islamic world. Various political, economic, cul
journal: Cuestiones Políticas