Book review: S. V. Lyubichankovsky. The policy of acculturation of Islamic subjects of the Russian Empire by means of education: the historical experience of the Orenburg region (mid-19<sup>th</sup> - early 20<sup>th</sup> centuries). Orenburg, OGAU Publishing center, 2018. 264 p
The review article analyzes the main ideas of the monograph by S. V. Lyubichankovsky “The Policy of acculturation of Islamic subjects of the Russian Empire by means of education: the historical experience of the Orenburg region (mid-19th - early 20th centuries)”, a conclusion is drawn about its organic inclusion in the modern direction of historical science, that is “new history of the Empire”. The idea is emphasized that developing the ideas of acculturation in historical science, S. V. Liubichankovskii, on the one hand, solves the important problem for science of introducing the non-Russian population of the Russian Empire into the space of Russian culture by means of enlightenment and education. On the other hand, the problem of modernizing the methodology of historical research is solved.