German Russian History

Aprons

• Neu, Leona. "Mama's Aprons." Prairies 7, no. 7: June/July 1984, 54.

Alsace, France

• Schweitzer, Professor Jean. "Alsace, France." Encyclopedie de L'Alsace 5, 2695-2698, n.d.

Beresan District (Ukraine)

• "Rastadt; Memories of Rastadt." 24 March 1998.

Bessarabia

• "Bessarabian Measurements." n.d.
• "Dennewitz, Bessarabia - Threshing Machine." n.d.
• "Ein Schüler und Studentenprojekt in Moldau 2014." (German language, website)
• Fieβ, Heinz. "The 1812 Peace Treaty of Bucharest." Mitteilungsblatt, August 2012, 6-9.
• Hofer, Rudolf. "Hoffnungstal, Bessarabia." 1983.
• Isert, Ingo Rüdiger. "On the [Early] History of Besserabia." Mitteilungsblatt, September 2012, 12.
• Nill, Edward and Reinhold Schneider. "The First Approved Visit to Beresina." May 1991.
• Vossler, Günther & Wiener, Erika. ""Pious and Industrious People..." -- The German Settlements in Bessarabia, 1814-1940." Mitteilungsblatt, January 2012, 14-16.
• Weiss, Th., E. Widmer, A. Kugele, J. Roloff and D. Wöelfle. "The Wedding in the Village of Kulm, Bessarabia." n.d.

Borodino

• Borodino, Bessarabia Folk Textiles
• Borodino, Bessarabia Pottery (earthenware ceramics)

Caucasus

• Flegel, Arthur E. "Escape from the USSR 1928 - David Flegel." n.d.

Churches

• Schill, Rev. Victor. "Out of Russia." Prairies 7, no. 7: June/July 1984, 90-110, 113.
• Watson, Shayne. "Kontor-Style Churches." Architecture, Ethnicity and Historic Landscapes of California's San Joaquin Valley, 2008.

Christmas

• "An Old-Fashioned Christmas." Prairies 7, no. 2: December/January 1983/1984, 12-17. [PDF]
• "Christmas in a Soviet Slave Labor Camp: A True Story by the Former Deportee Leo Oks." n.d.
• "Kirchen und Weihnachtslieder 2018." Germans from Russia Settlement Locations, December 2018.
• Overlie, Warren. "A Russian Christmas." Prairies 8, no. 6: December/January 1984/1985, 8-13. [PDF]
• "There Were no Christmas Trees for Germans in Russia." Prairies 4, no. 3: Winter 1978, 32-34. [PDF]

Colonists

• Stangl, Thomas A. "Explanation of the term 'Colonist.'" Electronic email message, 9 June 2012.

Dirty Thirties

• "The Dirty Thirties." Prairies 7, no. 7: June/July 1984, 44-45. [PDF]

Dobrudscha

• Heimat – May 1945: A Story Told from the Point of View of an 8-year Old Boy. (Story told in three languages: English, Bessarabian dialect, and High German.)
  • A Word List of the German Dialect of Caramurat

Farming

• "100-Year-Old Farm." Prairies 7, no. 7: June/July, 1984, 84-87.
• Flegel, Arthur E. "Wirt or Wirtschaft Definition." 8 November 2001.
• "General News of the Capital: Deadlock Over the Dakota Thistle." Chicago Daily Tribune, 20 July 1894, 2. [PDF]
• "Man's Best Friend: A Champion Show Horse." Prairies 8, no. 9: April 1985, 6-9. [PDF]
• Neu, Leona. "Life-Giving Seed." Prairies 7, no. 7: June/July 1984, 46 48. [PDF]
• "Is a Pest to Farmers." Chicago Daily Tribune, 10 May 1896, 40. [PDF]
• Our Story - Lentz Resurgent Grains

Genocide

• "Thanksgiving and Remembrance: Commemorating German Russian Victims of Genocide." (Program).

German Language

• German to English Language transition in the Dakotas, USA and Canada
• Hertel, Sylvia M. "German: The Language of Our Ancestors." 2015

Germans from Russia

• GERMANS FROM RUSSIA: Why did they come to North Dakota?
            Prepared by the State Historical Society of North Dakota
• "A Brief History of the Germans from Russia." n.d.
  • Baudler, Pastor T. R. "Who are They?" Wishek Diamond Jubilee: 1873 - 1973, 1973.
  • Bosch, Anton. "Emigration: A German-Russian Dream." Globus Spezial, n.d., 127-131.
  • Büchler, Ludwig M. "Remembrances of the Ships' Voyage to America." n.d.
  • "The Burkhartsmeier Wagon Train." n.d.
  • "Calendar of Events in the Life of the German Colonies." n.d.
  • "Catherine the Great." n.d.
  • Chaussee, Phyllis. "Reasons for Emigration." n.d.
  • "Chronology of the Black Sea Region." n.d.
  • "Chronology on the History of the Germans from Russia in the Former Soviet Union." n.d.
  • "Electronic Mail Message from Gene Stahl taken from Dickinson Press in 1945." n.d.
  • Fefyolova, T. "A Day Commemorating the Deportation of the Russian-Germans." Rundschau, 28 August 2001, no. 34: 431.
  • "Germans From the City of Odessa and the Black Sea Region Exhibit Catalog." n.d.
  • "Germans from Russia: Follow the Timeline." North Dakota Studies, n.d.
  • Goerz, H. "German-Russians in British Columbia, Canada." n.d.
  • "Great Mourning on the Black Sea." German Victims, 28 November 2013.
  • Hertel, Sylvia. "A Brief History of Germans from Russia." December 2016.
  • "Immigration of Germans to Russia." n.d.
  • Längin, Bernd G. "From Karlsruhe, About Karlsruhe, After Karlsruhe." Globus Spezial, 1990, 185-190.
  • A Look at the History of the Germans from Russia
  • "Major German Colonies in South Russia." n.d.
  • Miller, Michael M. "The Germans from Russia." n.d.
  • Peters, Victor. "German-Russians on the Canadian Prairie." Globus Spezial, n.d., 191-192.
  • Peters, Victor. "Russian Germans on the Canadian Prairie." June 8, 1990.
  • Read, Tamar C. "The German-Russians in North Dakota a Brief History." Festival of Ethnic Musical Traditions in North Dakota, 1983, 40-46, 49-50.
  • Reeb, Paul. "Insurance: Transitory Concepts by German Russians." n.d.
  • Riegert, Bernd. "Germans from Russia in the Great Plains: Bismarck, North Dakota." May 2001.
  • "Russian History Chronology Compiled by Dale Lee Wahl." n.d.
  • Schmoll, Betty L. "Germans From Russia and the Settlement in the State of Washington, USA." Unsere Zeitung Newsletter 25, no. 3, May/June 2000.
  • Series of Individual Articles on the Six Original Kutschurgan Colonies, Reprinted from Odessa Zeitung, 3 September 1908, in Der Staats-Anzeiger
  • Timeline: Important Dates in the History of German Russians
• Jahraus, William. "Why German-Russian Settlers Didn't Run for Public Office." Prairies 5, no. 3: Winter 1979, 2-7. [PDF]
• "The List of Households. Village of Rosenthal. Crimea Region, 1941." n.d.
  • Edel, Philippe Charles. "History of Strassburg, Alsace, France." September 1975.
• Pogorzelski, Daniel. "Jefferson Park's Volga Germans." Jefferson Park Historical Society Newsletter, no. 9: January 2009, 5-11.
• Stangl, Tomas. "Village Names of Passports." e-mail message to Michael Miller, April 2010.

Germans from Russia in Germany

• Bender, Ida and Rudolf. "The German Theatre." n.d.
• A Gift from Heaven: German-Russian Immigrants in the US State of Kansas." n.d.
• "Only the Third Generation Will have Bread -- German Immigrants from Russia in South Dakota." n.d.

Germans from Russia Towns & Villages

• Anderson, Alan B. "St Joseph's Colony, Katharinental Colony, Kronau-Rastadt, and Odessa (1886-1904)." n.d.
• Brandes, Professor Dr. Detlef. "A Success Story: The German Colonists in New Russia and Bessarabia: 1787-1914." Acta Slavica Iaponica Tomus, IX, 1991.
• "Farewell Beresina - Ade, Beresina." Mitteilunsblatt, 15 August 1991, 1.
• Glass, Jr, Marvin J. "Selz, Kutschurgan District, South Russia, 1897 document." n.d.
• Kohl, J.G. "A Visit to the German Colonies near Odessa in 1838." n.d.
• Kolesnikov, Stefan. "The Initial Period and the Process of Establishing of German Colonies in the Southern Ukraine." n.d.

Glueckstal District (Moldova and Ukraine)

• Gross, Friedrich. "Growing up in Glueckstal, South Russia." January 2004.

Homesteading

• "Homestead Act." 20 May 1862.
• Rules for Homesteading

Immigration to America

• Brosz, Allyn. "Germans From Russia Journey From Russia to North America." February 2009.
• Brosz, Allyn. "Emigration from Black Sea German villages in South Russia (today southern Ukraine) to the Dakotas." April 2019.
• Flegel, Arthur E. "Ancestors Travel." 19 September 2001.
• Flegel, Arthur E. "Travel Routes for Germans Leaving Russia to North America." n.d.
• Frank, Jerry. "The German Migration to the East." 2006.
• "Germany, Russia, California, Pioneers on Two Continents." 1996.
• "John Felchle Tells of Voyage from Russia to America, and of Early Experiences in the United States." n.d.
• Johnson, Larry. "Immigration Much the Same." Bismarck Tribune, 16 February 1982, 9B.
• Kanagasingam, Rajkumar. "German Memories - Volga Germans Migration Towards Americas." 2007.
• Mutschelknaus, Friedrich. "Migration of the First German Russians to Dakota: Memories of the Years 1872-73." Dakota Freie Presse, 11 November 1924.
• "The National Civic Federation Review." n.d.
• Newsom, Florence. "An Unforgettable Man." Prairies 3, no. 7: December 1977, 40-42. [PDF]
• Wagner, Dr. Roland."Moving to Montana from North Dakota in the 1920s." August 2010.
• "Where German Roots Run Deep." n.d.
• Wiess, Merv. "Emigration Routes Out of South Russia." 16 October 2017.

Immigration to Russia

• Height, Dr. Joseph S. "The Alsace Emigration to Russia." n.d.

Kansas

• Germans from Russia: Volga Germans
• Online Exhibits: From Far Away Russia Lured to Kansas

Liebental

• Mishin, Mikhail. "Leibental Germans: Their History in the 1930s." Odessa National Academy of Telecommunications, Odessa, Ukraine 2019.

Mennonites

• "Arrival and German Russian Life: The Theme for 2009 at the LWL-Open-Air Museum at Detmold." n.d.
• Masten, Sue. "Russian Mennonites." n.d.
• Peters, Victor. "Manitoba and its Mennonites." Manitoba 29, no. 6, 1974.

Minnesota

• Just, Carol. "40 Years of Research, Fun, Education and Community." North Star Chapter of Minnesota Germans from Russia (AHSGR/GRHS), vol. 43, no. 3, April 2018.

Odessa, Ukraine

• St. Paul's Church, Odessa, Ukraine, 2005 and 2013, by Fran Cooperrider, October, 2013
• Odessa Sights - German Lutheran Church
• Melik, Ella M. "Odessa: Village or City: What is it Exactly?" Central California Chapter-AHSGR Newsletter, March 2010, 10-11. 
• Seidel, Waldemar. "Memories of Waldemar Seidel." Cochrane, Alberta, December 2010
• St Paul's Lutheran Church
  • 2018 Journey to the Homeland Tour, May 2018
    • Flickr Album
  • 2017 Journey to the Homeland tour, May 2017
  • Flcikr Album
  • 2012 Journey to the Homeland Tour, May 2012
    • Photo Set 1
  • 2010 Journey to the Homeland Tour, May 2010
    • Photo Set 3
  • 2009 Journey to the Homeland Tour, May 2009
    • Photo Set 6
  • 2008 Journey to the Homeland Tour, May 2008, St. Paul's Lutheran Restoration Project.
    • Photo Set 3
    • Photo Set 16
  • Dedication of the German Evangelical-Lutheran Church, 17 April 2010.
    • Invitation German Language
    • Invitation Russian Language
    • Program German Language
    • Program Russian Language
  • Dedication of the new gild cross at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Odessa, Ukraine, 6 June 2009.
  • “Ein Wunder an den Gestaden des Schwarzen Meeres: Odessa feiert die Wiedereihung der lutherischen Kirche St. Paul.” Aktion Fastenopfer 2011 Hoffnung für Osteuropa, Evangelisch-Lutherischen Kirche in Bayern, München (German language) [PDF]
  • German Centre of St. Paul in Odessa, 2004 [PDF]
  • Holzwarth-Kocher, Angelika. "Come and See  -- the Re-consecrated St. Paul’s Church in Odessa." Volk auf dem Weg, December 2010, 22 & 27.
  • Horning, Erwin. "The Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Odessa, Restored and Rededicated." Mitteilungsblatt, October 2011, 18-19.
  • Letter from Dr. Claus-Jürgen Roepke, Gräfelfing, Germany
    • Letter 1, September 2008
    • Letter 2, September 2008
  • Melik, Ella M. "St. Paul Church House Brochure." n.d. [PDF]
  • Melik, Ella M. "St. Paul's Lutheran Church Clergy and Music Directors." n.d.
  • Melik, Ella M. "St. Paul's Lutheran Church History." n.d.
  • Melik, Ella M. "St. Paul's Lutheran Church Links." n.d.
  • Melik, Ella M. "St. Paul's Lutheran Church Odessa, Ukraine." n.d.
  • Melik, Ella M. "St. Paul's Lutheran Church Realschule." n.d.
  • Restoration Project of St. Paul's Lutheran Church Photographs. 12 August 2008.
  • St. Paul Lutheran Church Photographs Russian Language
  • State Archives of the Odessa Region, St. Paul's Lutheran Church, prepared by Albert Weber, secretary and house manager, translated from Russian to English by Mikhail Mishin, 2019.
  • Ukraine: The Youth Initiative "Gloria Days".

Oklahoma

• Everett, Dianna. "Germans from Russia." Oklahoma Historical Society, n.d.

Pioneer Women

• Redman, Vonda Kaye. "Writings of Dakota Women Pioneers." Prairies 3, no. 8: Spring 1978, 46-52. [PDF]

Prairie Life

• Fischer, David C. "Loneliness of Prairie Created Problems for Early Settlers." Prairies, October 1975, 22. [PDF]
• "Sod Houses - Vital "Invention" for Successful Prairie Living." Prairies 2, no. 6: November 1976, 28-29. [PDF]

Religion

• Dr. Rudolf, Homer. "Pastors in the German Villages of South Russia." Richmond, Virginia, July, 2006
• Selz, Kutschurgan District, South Russia (Ukraine)  
• Saskatchewan, Canada

South Dakota

• Nixon, Lance. "Tales from a far country: How Russian German immigrants settled South Dakota." Capital Journal, 8 Jul 2016.

Summer Kitchens

• Watson, Shayne. "Summer Kitchens in Fresno." Architecture, Ethnicity and Historic Landscapes of California's San Joaquin Valley, 2008.

Other Articles

• Rippley, La Vern J. “Gift Cows for Germany.” North Dakota History: Journal of the Nothern Plains, vol. 40, no. 3, 1973.
• Spack, Alexander. "Un Viaje para las Aldeas Volga-Alemanes del Antiguo Condado de Frank Kanton." 2-5 de Mayo 2009.
• Waimann, Gerardo. "Christmas in the Volga-German Colonies." 22 December 2009.
• Wiest, Ruth Gross. "Siberia: The Land of Opportunity and Promise." n.d.
• "Wilhelm "Columbus" Heib." Dakota Datebook, 1 August 2005.