Johannes Richter, a carpenter (Tischler), and his wife Johanna Bosch settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 45.
In 1786, Johannes Richter and his family left Katharinenstadt.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Richter came from the German village of Wischef [?] near Mähren and that Johanna Bosch came from the Dutch town of Amsterdam in Holland.
- 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): Mv1182.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 286.
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