Ludwig Kaiser, a farmer, his wife Susanna, and daughters (Margaretha, age 8; Maria, age 2¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port in Oranienbaum on 17 July 1766 aboard a pink named Lev (Lion) under the command of Lieutenant Fyodor Fyodorov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Krasnoyar on 20 July 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 114 along with orphan Margaretha Müller (age 16), daughter of Konrad Müller. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Kaiser and Müller families.
The 1798 census records in Household No. Ks005 that Nikolaus Kaiser, son of the deceased Ludwig Kaiser, is working in Reinwald, and that his brother Konrad is working in Katharinenstadt.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Ludwig Kaiser came from the German region of Hessen. The 1767 census records that Ludwig Kaiser came from the German village of Marburg in the Hessen region.
- 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): 327.
- 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): Ks005.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 446.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #2424.
Brent Mai