The monograph is an attempt at a comprehensive study of issues related to the formation and spread of the state ideology of Nikolaev Russia, based on the triad "Orthodoxy, autocracy, nationality." The author focuses on administrative resources used by the authorities to form the political loyalty of society and its moral and religious education, as well as sociocultural conditions for propaganda and interpretation of ideology in the context of the growth of national identity of Russian society and the actualization of the Russia-West problem. For scientists, teachers, graduate students, students and everyone interested in Russian history.