Schulz was founded on 8 September 1766 by the recruiters who worked for the Russian Government. The colony received its name from Johann Jakob Schulz, the first major (Vorsteher) of the colony. By a decree dated 26 February 1768, the colony was given the Russian name of Lugovaya Gryaznukha.
Today, what remains of the former colony of Schulz is known as Lugovskoye.
Originally the Lutheran congregation in Schulz was part of the Rosenheim parish which had been established in 1767.
The congregation in Schulz was served by the following pastors:
- 1767-1785 Ludwig Helm
- 1777-1787? Daniel Willi
- 1786-1788 Laurentius Ahlbaum
- 1788-1791 Klaus Peter Lundberg
- 1792-1815 Mag. Christian Friedrich Jäger
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
28
|
74
|
|
|
| 1769 |
35
|
127
|
70
|
57
|
| 1773 |
32
|
133
|
75
|
58
|
| 1788 |
19
|
91
|
50
|
41
|
| 1798 |
27
|
142
|
78
|
64
|
| 1816 |
28
|
245
|
128
|
117
|
| 1834 |
52
|
501
|
252
|
249
|
| 1850 |
72
|
731
|
369
|
362
|
| 1857 |
76
|
976
|
474
|
502
|
| 1859 |
|
987
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
1,105
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
1,453*
|
722
|
731
|
| 1905 |
|
2,092
|
|
|
| 1910 |
179
|
2,226
|
1,142
|
1,084
|
| 1912 |
|
3,200
|
|
|
| 1920 |
202
|
1,511
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,092
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
954
|
|
|
| 1926 |
180
|
957
|
446
|
511
|
| 1931 |
|
2,141
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,451 were German.
Schulz (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): 353.
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Klaus, A. Our Colony [in Russian] (St. Petersburg, 1869): 2:14 & 4:56-57.
- List of Populated Areas of the Samara Province [in Russian] (Samara, 1910): 325.
- 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): 612.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 11, 119-126.
- Pleve, Igor R. The German Colonies on the Volga: The Second Half of the Eighteenth Century, translated by Richard Rye (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2001): 318.
- Preliminary Results of the All-Union Census of 1926 and ASSR Volga Germans (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
- Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II by Count Orlov, 14 February 1769.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 16.
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Migrated From
Immigration Locations
Map showing Schulz (1935).
Map of Schulz (1919).
Source: Fred Zitzer.
Military registration form for Heinrich Richter from Schulz colony.
Source: Ward Richter.
"These are two photos of a box that came from Schulz. My father who was nine years old had the job of carrying it in a bag during their trip to the U.S. He reported that it had belonged to his Uncle who was the Schulz village treasurer and he had kept financial records in the box. It is veneered and keyed. I had it appraised a number of years ago by an expert in European crafts and he said that the quality of the veneer was an exquisite example of the state of that art in rural areas of Eastern Europe in the late 1800s. This is the only physical thing other than a couple of documents that survive from anything brought from Russia by the family."
Photos and descriptions provided courtesy of Ward Richter