Müller was founded on 16 August 1767 by recruiters employed by the Tsarist government.
The colony of Müller no longer exists, but its streets are still visible by satellite image.
Most of the original colonists who settled in Müller were Lutheran.
The congregation in Müller was part of the Stephan parish which had been founded in 1771.
The congregation in Müller was served by the following pastors:
- 1771-1778 Johann Kaspar Brauns
- 1778-1778 Laurentius Ahlbaum
- 1779-1782 Klaus Peter Lundberg
- 1782-1788 Jakob Alexander Topelius
- 1798-1811 Karl Adolf Günther
Immigrated to the following locations
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
|
1767 |
38
|
113
|
|
|
|
1769 |
34
|
112
|
54
|
58
|
|
1773 |
35
|
142
|
69
|
73
|
|
1788 |
36
|
206
|
101
|
105
|
|
1798 |
39
|
260
|
124
|
136
|
|
1816 |
51
|
413
|
205
|
208
|
|
1834 |
34
|
713
|
366
|
347
|
|
1850 |
126
|
1,153
|
584
|
569
|
|
1857 |
105
|
1,412
|
698
|
714
|
|
1859 |
91
|
1,454
|
722
|
732
|
|
1886 |
129
|
1,043
|
541
|
502
|
|
1891 |
131
|
1,576
|
846
|
730
|
|
1894 |
145
|
1,751
|
926
|
825
|
|
1897 |
|
1,084*
|
542
|
542
|
|
1905 |
|
2,466
|
|
|
|
1911 |
|
2,472
|
|
|
|
1912 |
|
2,488
|
|
|
|
1920 |
232**
|
1,367
|
|
|
|
1922 |
|
1,022
|
|
|
|
1926*** |
181
|
911
|
429
|
482
|
|
1931 |
|
1,198****
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,069 were German.
**Of which 230 households were German.
***Of whom 909 were German (180 households: 428 male & 481 female).
****Of whom 1,197 were German.
Müller (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
Muller Original Settlers List (Bill Wiest)
Village of Mueller (Lower Volga Village Project)
- 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): 351.
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- List of Settlements in the Russian Empire in 1859, vol. 38: Saratov Province (St. Petersburg, 1862): p.59.
- Mink, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province [in Russian] (Saratov, Russia, 1898): 541-544.
- Orlov, Gregorii. Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II, 14 February 1769.
- 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): 621.
- Pleve, Igor R. The German Colonies on the Volga: The Second Half of the Eighteenth Century, translated by Richard Rye (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2001): 318.
- Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
- Schnurr, Joseph, Die Kirchen und das Religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen - Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, 1972): 193.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 18.
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Migrated From
Immigration Locations
Map showing Müller (1935).
The streets of the former colony of Müller are still visible by satellite.
Source: Vladimir Kakorin.