The following are recorded on a list of subjects from Sollnitz who escaped to Russia:
Christoph [sic] Schwarzkopff [sic] (age 32, born in Sollnitz), his wife [first name not recorded] née Keßlerin from Schierau (age 26), and 4 children [Johann Sophia, age 11 (who stayed in Sollnitz); Susanna, age 9; Johann Carl, age 5; Dorothea, age 1].
Christian Schwarzkopf, a farmer, his wife Katharina, and daughter Katharina [Susanna] (age 9) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard a ship named Die Zwei Gebrüder (The Two Brothers) under the command of Skipper Nicolaus Peter Pinck.
Christoph [sic] Schwartzkopff [sic], his wife Catharina, and daughter Catharina (age 9) are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767 along with a note that Christoph [sic] died in route.
His widow remarried to Johann Martin Schneider who had been on the same ship arriving in Oranienbaum. The combined Schneider / Schwarzkopf family is recorded on the 1767 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. 10.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian Schwarzkopf came from the German region of Dessau.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Schwarzkopf family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 31.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 545.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 314.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4231.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5576-5578.
Brent Mai
Karl Becker
List of subjects from Sollnitz who secretly escaped to Russia in 1766.
Source: Karl Becker.