The material presented in the rows below aims to show an insight on what meant the relationship between the two subjects, namely the State represented by its administrative structures and the Lipovan Community. Starting from the analysis of these subjects, the author attempts to establish the actions and the attitudes of the state towards the communal development, as well to illustrate the imaginary profile of the community of Lipovans formulated by the State. A special attention is paid to the imagined profile of the imperial power, in the collective mindset of the Orthodox community of old rite, to the profile of the Tsarist regime – as the main source of power in Imperial Russia, the alone Tsar's profile, and also the differences of these two topics and the causes that led to such diverse interpretations.