Christianization of the population of the North Caucasian peoples as the stage of including in the administrative and legal system of Russia

The problems affecting the processes associated with the accession Ossetia to Russia as the integration of the peoples of the North Caucasus into the Russian legal administrative system. The Christianization of Ossetia is paid much attention, before it the Russian-Ossetian relations were formed. There were some difficulties, mainly connected with the sphere of foreign policy, which didn’t allow developing these relations in the XVIII century. The results of studying of many authors dealing with this problem were analyzed and compared in this article. The questions about the Ossetian population orientation to Russia and it lead to the relatively rapid and deep introduction of Christianity into the life of the Ossetian society are discussed in it. The novelty of the research is seen in the fact of Christianization of the Ossetian population examined under Ossetia joining process into the administrative and legal system of Russia, as in the study of the matter, it was found that the Christianization factor was one of the points in the process of joining North Ossetia to Russia. The relevance of the study is in the importance of taking a decision by the Ossetian population that they should be Christianized. It was an important fact was as neighboring nations, such as the Muslim Kabarda influenced this process.