Johann Joachim Christiani, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Diana under the command of Skipper Markus Draguhn.
Johan Joachim Christiani is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
He has not been located on the 1767 or 1798 censuses, but those believed to be his descendants are recorded on the 1834 Census of Dehler in Household No. 54.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Joachim Christiani came from the German region of Mecklenburg.
- 1834 Dehler Census (Household No. 54).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 33.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 702.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #5610.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #2222.
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