Anton was founded on 7 September 1764 by recruitors employed the Russian government of Catherine the Great and was therefore known as a Crown Colony.
On 26 February 1768, Anton received its official Russian name of Sebastinovka.
Today, what remains of the former colony of Anton is known as Sadovoye.
The congregation in Anton was part of the Reformed parish headquartered in Messer.
A new church building was constructed in 1856 in the Kontor Style. The steeple was removed at some point during the Soviet Era, but this building still stands and is being used as a community center.
The parish in Anton was served by the following pastors:
Johannes Janet (1765-1778)
Daniel Willi (1777-1786)
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
63
|
229
|
|
|
| 1769 |
59
|
241
|
116
|
125
|
| 1773 |
59
|
270
|
127
|
143
|
| 1788 |
57
|
367
|
180
|
187
|
| 1798 |
54
|
356
|
177
|
179
|
| 1816 |
80
|
611
|
307
|
304
|
| 1834 |
103
|
988
|
488
|
500
|
| 1850 |
109
|
1,516
|
740
|
776
|
| 1857 |
146
|
1,690
|
828
|
862
|
| 1859 |
149
|
1,729
|
853
|
876
|
| 1886 |
224
|
1,951
|
963
|
988
|
| 1891 |
219
|
2,601
|
1,300
|
1,301
|
| 1894 |
225
|
2,565
|
1,285
|
1,280
|
| 1897 |
|
1,644*
|
786
|
858
|
| 1904 |
|
3,000
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
3,047
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
3,095
|
|
|
| 1920 |
378**
|
2,363
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,633
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
1,813
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
315
|
1,581
|
755
|
826
|
| 1931 |
|
2,248
|
|
|
| 1941 |
|
1,800
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,637 were German.
**Of which 376 households were German.
***Of whom 1,526 were German (310 households: 713 male & 813 female).
Anton (Wolgadeutsche.net)
- Beratz, Gottieb. The German colonies on the Lower Volga, their origin and early development: a memorial for the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first German settlers on the Volga, 29 June 1764. Translated by Adam Giesinger (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1991): 348.
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Orlov, Gregorii. Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II, 14 February 1769.
- Pallas, P.S. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Theil 3,2, Reise aus Sibirien zurueck an die Wolga im 1773sten Jahr (St. Petersburg: Kaiserl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 1776): 621.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 19, 51-69.
- Pleve, Igor R. The German Colonies on the Volga: The Second Half of the Eighteenth Century (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2001): 311, 319.
- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 19.
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Map showing Anton (1935)
Former school in Anton.
Former school in Anton.
Former Lutheran Church in Anton.
Former Lutheran Church in Anton.
Former grain storage building.