Legal Regulation of State-Religious Relations in Russia: a Historiographical Survey

The purpose of the research. In this article the author studies the contemporary Russian historiography, including scholarly works in the fields of law, history, and other humanities, which deal with the subject of legal regulation of stat-church relations. Different models of state-religious relations are examined in the legal-historical perspective. There is also the analysis of different approaches to the subject of legal regulation of state-religious relations, used by historians and specialists in law. Results. The Russian scholarly literature on the subject of legal regulation of state-church relations is rather diverse, with a clear predominance of historical books, yet there are few examples of legal research. Most important works address the issue of state-church relations in the Soviet period. Besides, it is necessary to mention that new significant studies have been published recently, in which the authors not just present the unknown archival documents, but also analyze them though the scope of other available sources, including the memories, personal interviews, and so on.