The article describes the religious incident, which consisted in open disobedience and refusal of the icons, the group of sectarian-judaizers living in the village of Mikhailovka Astrakhan province in the middle of the XIX century. The term "revolt", rendered in the title, is enclosed in quotes, because large scale this incident did not buy. Nevertheless, administrative-military intervention and the threat of expulsion were required to return sectants to Orthodoxy. The purpose of the article is to establish the peculiarities of the behavior of the sectarians of the people in the province, in particular, an increased degree of religiosity, submissal by the leaders of sectarian groups and conflict with respect to the church and secular authorities. The author concludes that the predominance of the militating management method on border, frontier territories, in particular, in the Nizhnevolzhsky Frontyr, to which the Astrakhan province belonged. The relevance and scientific novelty of the article are to introduce new data into scientific turnover and analysis of the behavior of the Astrakhan sectarians-judaizers in conditions of external suppression, both by the internal mission of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Administration of the province. The article applies analytical, interpretative and axiological scientific methods.
