Dr. Hermann Wäschke records that Hans George Richter, a tenant (Mietsmann), with his wife, and two children (one son & one daughter), from Mosigkau in the district of [Anhalt]-Dessau, immigrated to Russia.
Georg Richter, a farmer, his wife Rosina, and children (Henrietta, age 13; Johann, age 1½) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 June 1766 aboard an English barque named George under the command of Skipper Adam Bairnsfair.
Johan Georg Richter, his wife Sophia, and children (Henrietta, age 13; Gottlieb, age 1½) are recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Georg Richter, a farmer, his wife Sophia, and children (Henrietta, age 15½; Gottlieb, age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. 51. They had arrived in Orlovskaya on 7 June 1767.
Maria Richter, daughter of the deceased Gottlieb Richter, is recorded on the 1798 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. Or13.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Richter came from the German region of Dessau. The 1767 census records that Georg Richter came from the German village of Mosigkau in the Dessau Region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Richter family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 218.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Or13.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1139.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 322.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1528.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #1190-1193.
- Wäschke, Hermann. "Deutsche Familien in Russland" in Roland, Archiv für Stamm- und Wappenkunde, Jubiläumsschrift, 18 January 1912: 84.
Brent Mai