Abstract:

The phenomenon of nationalism, which emerged in Western Europe along with the process of modernization and industrialization, soon began to threaten the multi-language, multinational feudal state structure of the Tsarish government, the Tsarish Russia, which wanted to protect its expanding borders and current state structure to the Caucasus and Turkistan, and the other non-Russian (Neruski) and non-Christian (Inoverets) imperialism, followed the assimilation and missionary policies towards the mid-19th century to Russification and Christianization. At the head of this cultural nationalist policy, which is carried out to be the language of education and communication within the Tsarski borders, is Nikolay Ivanovich Ilminskiy, who works on Turkish linguistics and theology at the Kazan University Theological Academy. The Tsar II. The educational system of Ilminsky, supported by Alexander, enabled the spread and more systematic application of Russian language and Christianity as a reflection of rising Russian nationalism. In accordance with this prepared education system, the missionary activities were carried out, the division of the local languages by the Lethish and Shiva, the teaching of the Russian and Cyrillic alphabet along with the local languages, and finally the making of the Russian into a common language within the Tsarist borders. Thus, the group of religious and ethnic differences was asked to be assimilated into the Russian and Orthodox Christian identity. This study examined the process of cultural assimilation policy that Russian nationalism carries through the Ilminsky educational system, the factors affecting this process, the structure and practices of this educational system. Although the Imminsky education system has not achieved the goal within the empire borders, the Christianization of the Tatar Turks, the spread of Russian among other ethnic groups and the preparation of the ground for the Russianization policies that followed it, has been very effective.

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