“…A characteristic feature of Soviet historiography was a negative interpretation of the tsarist government's measures in the field of schooling for non-Russian peoples, while at the same time emphasizing the progressive influence of Russian culture on them (BERKUTOV, 1968;DNIEPROV, 1985;EFIROV, 1939;GOROKHOV, 1941;KHAKIMOV, 1972;KHANBIKOV, 1967;MAKHMUTOVA, 1982;RUSTYAMOVA, 1958). After the collapse of the USSR, as interest in national history soared, historians wrote about different aspects of the state school policy towards Tatars-Muslims (FARKHSHATOV, 2000;FAZLIEV et al, 2019;GAFAROV, 2019;MAKHMUTOVA, 1998;RAKHIMOV, 1997;ZAGIDULLIN, 1992). There was an increase in the number of studies on the history of Tatar madrasas and the social and pedagogical activity of national education reformers.…”