Officially, Kind was founded on 3 August 1767 by colonists from Hessen recruited by Baron Caneau de Beauregard. However, according to historian Jakob Dietz, the original settlers of Kind spent the first winter in other colonies and moved to Kind in 1768.
The 1767 census does not include a list of the original colonists in Kind as they were residing in other colonies at that time.
The colony received its name from August Christoph Kind, the leader of the group who first settled there. It was given its official Russian name (Baskakovka) in honor of the vice-president of the Office of Immigrant Oversight (the Kontora) who bore that name.
There was a parochial school in Kind, and by 1862 it had 171 students and one teacher.
Today, what remains of the Volga German colony of Kind is known as Baskatovka.
Before 1820, the congregation in Kind belonged to the Lutheran parish of Bettinger. After that, it became part of the parish in nearby Näb.
The first known dedicated church building in Kind was constructed of wood in 1808. It was 48 feet long and 24 feet wide. This facility was replaced by a new wooden building in 1875. It was built in the Kontora style on the same foundation as the old structure. It is reported to have had seating for 1,200 people and an organ.
Nothing remains of the church today.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
|
|
|
|
| 1769 |
39
|
131
|
70
|
61
|
| 1773 |
35
|
140
|
75
|
65
|
| 1788 |
24
|
137
|
80
|
57
|
| 1798 |
48
|
166
|
85
|
81
|
| 1816 |
41
|
290
|
152
|
138
|
| 1834 |
63
|
502
|
261
|
241
|
| 1850 |
91
|
815
|
428
|
387
|
| 1857 |
89
|
964
|
497
|
467
|
| 1859 |
|
|
|
|
| 1886 |
|
|
|
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
|
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,592
|
799
|
793
|
| 1904 |
|
|
|
|
| 1910 |
251
|
2,847
|
1,466
|
1,381
|
| 1912 |
|
2,890
|
|
|
| 1920 |
347
|
2,314
|
|
|
| 1926* |
277
|
1,717
|
846
|
871
|
*Of those, 274 households consisting of 1,711 people (841 male & 870 female) were German.
- Kind (Wolgadeutsche.net) [in Russian]
- 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): 350.
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Dietz, Jacob E. History of the Volga German Colonists. Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2005.
- Klaus, A.A. Our Colonies (Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1869): 52-53.
- List of the Populated Places of the Samara Province (Samara, Russia, 1910): 292.
- 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): 613.
- Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 of the ASSR of the Germans of Volga Region (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): 28-83.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.
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Map showing Kind (1935).
Lutheran Church in Kind (built in 1875).
Source: Bill Pickelhaupt.
Langolf Creamery rendering.
Source: wolgadeutsche.net
Langolf Creamery rendering (facade).
Source: wolgadeutsche.net
Langolf Creamery (today).
Source: Bill Pickelhaupt.
Volga German building in Kind, constructed in 1904.
Source: Bill Pickelhaupt.
Building constructed in 1907.
Currently the Primary School in Kind.
Source: Bill Pickelhaupt
Volga German house in Kind.
Source: Irina Gray