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Macarius (Glukharyov)

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In 1844, Fr. Makarii finally departed the Altai, leaving newly-ordained Fr. Stefan Vasil'evich Landyshev as his successor. <ref> AMG:FAM pp. 140-141. </ref> He died in Bolkhov on [[May 18]], 1847.<ref> AMG:FAM pp. 179-182. </ref>
 
==Legacy==
 
By World War I, the Altai mission established by Fr. Makarii had succeeded in converting over half of the region's native population, and organizing them into a network of Christian villages (whereas before most had been nomadic pastoralists). Some eighty-two schools of various classes were established, along with rudimentary medical care. James Lawton Haney writes,
 
:"The most progressive among the Church's eight Siberian missions, these schools were operated primarily for the benefit of the native Altai people, although they also served Russians. Through instruction in the Orthodox faith they served to integrate the students into the Church, but they also offered them their only hope for entrance into the modern world through basic education. [...] It is undeniable that these schools served the state's colonial interests in the Russification of the native population. Due to the fact that classes were held in the Altai language and the fact that many teachers were of Altaian or part-Altaian heritage, however, the mission schools also provided the Altai people with a vision of a new social identity beyond the village or tribe. Even Soviet researchers have acknowledged that the schools played a significant role in cultural development of the Altai people."<ref> AMG:FAM pp. 64-65.</ref>
 
Josef Glasik calls the Altai mission
 
:"...the first really exemplary Orthodox mission organization."."<ref> Quoted in AMG:FAM p. 2.</ref>
 
The 1917 [[Russian Revolution]] essentially destroyed this network of communities.Also of note was the 1904 Burkhanist movement, a native Altaian religious movement which arose in opposition to Christianity and Russian culture.
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