ДІЛОВОДНИЙ ДОКУМЕНТАЛЬНИЙ КОМПЛЕКС ХАРКІВСЬКОЇ ДУХОВНОЇ КОНСИСТОРІЇ ЯК ПРОВІДНЕ ДЖЕРЕЛО ІСТОРІЇ СТАРОООБРЯДНИЦТВА ХАРКІВСЬКОЇ ГУБЕРНІЇ В ХІХ ст.

The article analyzes the archival documents of the Kharkiv Theological Consistory Fund as a unique source of studying the history of the Old Believers in Kharkiv province in the XIX century. It was concluded that these sources illuminated the ways of fighting the civil authorities and the Church against the spread of the Old Believers in the region. While some groups of sources, such as statistics or reports of priests rather subjective, but they often act only way to learn about the religion of everyday life of the Old Believers and their counteracting repression