Among them are at least 1,017 ethnic Germans. German colonists first settled along the shores of the Volga River in the late 18th century at the invitation of Catherine the Great, who hoped the ...

The birthplace of the Volga River was first discovered in the 17th ... They had received a most-generous invitation from German-born Catherine the Great, who as czarina was looking to populate ...

The river terminal of Marx and the monument to ... Anna Sorokina Thanks to these efforts, locals began to realize that the Volga Germans are practically an indigenous ethnic group in Russia ...

From 1764 to 1767, 23,000 Germans emigrated to a small area of Russia along the Volga River at the behest of Russia’s German-born princess, Catherine the Great. A total of 104 colonies were ...

The story goes that in late November 1941, German forces were closing in ... “Why builders? Isn’t the Volga a real river?” In a way it isn’t really a river anymore—it no longer flows ...

Germans troops entered the city. The outnumbered Soviet forces were only able to hold a tiny sliver along the Volga River. Stalin issued an order that anyone thought to be retreating or deserting ...

The Christian faith of ethnic German immigrants from Russia’s Volga River region is memorialized at the All Faiths Chapel at the Lincoln headquarters of the American Historical Society of ...

BISMARCK, ND (KXNET) — An exhibit called “The Art of Making Do” is now open at the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum. The display highlights the everyday folk art of German ...