In the first half of the 19th century a specific practice developed in the Orenburg borderland. According to it, foreign slaves (we use this term to designate slaves who weren’t Russian Empire’s subjects) were to be granted freedom as well as a choice whether to return home or convert to Orthodoxy and become Russian subjects. However, in the materials of the Joint State Archive of Orenburg Region we have found several deviations from this practice.
The manuscript is devoted to the study of the structure of Masonic organizations in the Russian Empire in the XVIII century. The material of the work includes memoir sources, published documents (interrogation materials), as well as pre-revolutionary, foreign and modern historiography. The research is based on such methods of historical research as historical-systematic, classification, synthesis and content analysis. In conclusion, the authors note that the structure of Russian Freemasonry of the XVIII century included three types of Masonic lodges: — The «English» system of Masonic lodges.
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