Konrad Rieger, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Christina under the command of Skipper Jacob Stappenberg.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Kutter on 8 July 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 12 along with his new wife, Elisabeth.
The 1798 census of Kutter records (Household No. Kt54) that Konrad Rieger is a shepherd in Beideck.
Friedrich Rüger and his family moved from Kutter to Norka in 1884.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Konrad Rieger was a farmer while the 1767 census records that he was a craftsman (Handwerker).
Both documents record that Konrad Rieger came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1891-1905 Norka Communion Register (Household No. 797).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 32.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 411.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Kt54, Kt61.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 478.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #3186.
Brent Mai