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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:24:18 +0000

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I found a 13 page pamphlet in German by a Dr. Carl Christian Ulman from 1841 from the University of Dorpat. Three pages are a history of the colony of Zurichthal in the Crimea, including the departure of 200 people from Constance, Switzerland in 1803, down the Danube to Pressburg, Hungary (now Bratislava in Slovakia), a 14 day layover in Vienna, to Rosenberg, Hungary, where 30 died as they wintered there. Events are related after their arrival in Russia as well.

There is also miscellaneous news about the colonies of Basel, Stephan and Naeb, comings and goings of pastors in Volga colonies, Protestant parishes in Siberia and elsewhere in Russia and other short articles. I do not have time to translate this, but if anyone is willing to translate and share, I will pass the pamphlet along. It actually looks as if this is part of a periodical magazine published in Dorpat. So maybe there is other news of interest out there. I found that Naeb, the parish my grandparents belonged to, had obtained an organ for their church.

Bill Pickelhaupt
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