Husaren was founded on 13 June 1765 by colonists who had been recruited by agents of the government and was therefore called a Crown Colony. It was founded on the banks of the Ilovlya River, directly across from the Volga German colony of Volmer.
According to Christian August Tornow, the colony was called Gulder during the first few years of its existance.
Today, what remains of the colony of Husaren is known as Yelshanka.
All but two of the families that originally settled in Husaren were Roman Catholic.
The parish in Husaren was served by the following priests:
- Michael Haag (1875)
- Johannes Beilman (1875-1876)
- Andreas Seewald
- Augustin Gabel (1894-1895)
- Rev. Brunhard (1885-1886)
- Andreas Müller
- Nikolaus Maier (1902-1903)
- Johannes Burghardt (1903-1910)
- Vicar Georg Dötzel (1903-1904)
- Peter Glassmann (1913-1914)
- Andreas Schönberger (1917-1928)
- Adam Gareis (1928)
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1765 |
14
|
39
|
19
|
20
|
| 1767 |
|
95
|
|
|
| 1769 |
34
|
102
|
54
|
48
|
| 1773 |
34
|
123
|
65
|
58
|
| 1788 |
29
|
137
|
78
|
59
|
| 1798 |
33
|
195
|
94
|
101
|
| 1816 |
64
|
261
|
141
|
120
|
| 1834 |
100
|
635
|
314
|
321
|
| 1850 |
98
|
1,051
|
552
|
499
|
| 1857 |
110
|
1,175
|
598
|
577
|
| 1859 |
104
|
1,188
|
612
|
576
|
| 1886 |
222
|
1,510
|
772
|
738
|
| 1891 |
|
|
|
|
| 1894 |
188
|
1,995
|
1,091
|
904
|
| 1897 |
|
1,516*
|
736
|
780
|
| 1905 |
|
1,858
|
|
|
| 1911 |
|
2,179
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
2,231
|
|
|
| 1920 |
306**
|
1,988
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,417
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
317
|
1,616
|
791
|
825
|
| 1931 |
|
1,814
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,492 were German.
**Of which 303 households were German.
***Of whom 1,595 were German (311 households: 777 male & 818 female).
Husaren (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
Village Husaren (Alexander Rollhäuser)
- Beratz, Gottieb. The German colonies on the Lower Volga, their origin and early development: a memorial for the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first German settlers on the Volga, 29 June 1764. Translated by Adam Giesinger (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1991): 350.
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- Erbes, Johannes. Deutsche Volkszeitung (23 August 1906).
- List of Settlements in the Russian Empire in 1859, vol. 38: Saratov Province (St. Petersburg, 1862): 59.
- Mink, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province [in Russian] (Saratov, Russia, 1898): 285-288.
- Pallas, P.S. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Theil 3,2, Reise aus Sibirien zurueck an die Wolga im 1773sten Jahr (St. Petersburg: Kaiserl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 1776): 623.
- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 18.
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Map showing Husaren - on the right (1935).