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The Russian Empire rarely embraced religious freedom.

Orthodox Christianity served as the state’s foundational religion.

The monarchy saw its duty as defending the Orthodox Church.

Minority faiths were allowed a precarious existence.

They were often subject to severe restrictions, surveillance, and http://www.board24.ru/view.phtml?id=70223 periodic persecution.

Imperial rulers believed religious conformity guaranteed social order and national cohesion.

Jews, for example, were confined to the Pale of Settlement and faced legal discrimination in education, property ownership, and employment.

Pogroms were not uncommon, sometimes encouraged or ignored by local authorities.

Muslim communities were permitted religious observance yet denied equal status.

Their religious institutions were monitored and their leaders co-opted by the state.

Dissenting Christian groups suffered decades of state repression for rejecting liturgical changes.

Even within Orthodox Christianity, dissent was not tolerated.

Religious thinkers deemed too liberal were stripped of office and sent into isolation.

The Patriarch answered to the Tsar, not to ecclesiastical tradition.

The merging of spiritual and political power made diversity appear dangerous.

Enlightened circles increasingly demanded the end of religious repression.

Motivated by transnational movements advocating civil rights.

Reformers were labeled traitors and subjected to censorship or arrest.

Any deviation from Orthodox dominance was treated as political sedition.

In the end, faith tolerance in tsarist Russia was more a matter of pragmatic accommodation than genuine acceptance.

The state allowed minority religions to exist only as long as they did not openly challenge the dominance of Orthodox Christianity or the autocracy itself.

Spiritual practice unfolded under the shadow of repression