Paulskaya was founded on 7 June 1767 by colonists who had been recruited by Baron Caneau de Beauregard. He named it Paulskaya in honor of Tsarevich Paul, the son of Catherine the Great and heir apparent.
The 1767 census of Paulskaya includes an appendix that records colonists who were evidently living in Paulskaya during the winter of 1767-1768, but who moved on to permanent residences in other colonies in 1768.
After 1915, Paulskaya was known by the name of Pavlovka.
Today, what remains of the former colony of Paulskaya is known as Pavlovka.
The colonists who settled in Paulskaya were of the Lutheran and Reformed faith practice. It was originally part of the Lutheran parish of Katharinenstadt South from where its pastors came. In 1905, it became an independent parish with a resident pastor of its own.
During the early years, the colonists worshiped in a Bethaus (a building that served as both the church and school). A new wooden church building was constructed in Paulskaya in 1801. In 1860, it was purchased by the daughter colony of Rosental, dismantled, transported, and reconstructed there.
In 1860, construction of a new wooden church designed in the "Kontor Style" was begun on the site of the former building. A parsonage was built adjacent to the church in 1905 along with a wooden bell tower.
The Lutheran parish in Paulskaya was served by pastors who lived in neighboring colonies. The congregation became an independent parish in 1905 with a resident pastor.
The church in Paulskaya was closed in 1935.
After Paulskaya became an independent parish in 1905, it was served by the following pastors:
1907-1909 Karl Cramer
1911-1920 Karl Zimmer
1918-1927 Johann Heinrich Seydlitz
1928-1935 Ernst Albert Boese
Immigrated to the following locations
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
|
1767 |
87
|
280
|
144
|
136
|
|
1769 |
88
|
298
|
160
|
138
|
|
1773 |
82
|
326
|
177
|
149
|
|
1788 |
51
|
297
|
145
|
152
|
|
1798 |
70
|
374
|
177
|
197
|
|
1816 |
89
|
546
|
266
|
280
|
|
1834 |
134
|
956
|
483
|
473
|
|
1850 |
165
|
1,320
|
668
|
652
|
|
1857 |
186
|
1,595
|
796
|
799
|
|
1859 |
175
|
1,675
|
836
|
839
|
|
1889 |
|
2,095
|
|
|
|
1897 |
|
2,424*
|
1,242
|
1,182
|
|
1904 |
|
3,166
|
|
|
|
1910 |
317
|
3,701
|
1,963
|
1,738
|
|
1912 |
|
3,602
|
|
|
|
1920 |
417**
|
3,344
|
|
|
|
1922 |
|
1,856
|
|
|
|
1923 |
|
2,049
|
|
|
|
1926*** |
410
|
2,370
|
1,160
|
1,210
|
|
1931 |
|
3,071****
|
|
|
*Of whom 2,421 were German.
**Of which 416 households were German.
***Of whom 2,366 (1,157 male & 1,209 female) were German living in 408 households.
****Of whom 3,070 were German.
Paulskaya (wolgadeutsche.net) in Russian
- 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): 352.
- Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
- The German Settlements in the USSR before 1941 [in Russian] (Moscow, 2002): 117.
- Klaus, A.A. Our Colonies (Saint Petersburg, Russia, 1869): II, p.13; IV, p.54-55.
- List of the Populated Places of the Samara Province (Samara, Russia, 1910): 261.
- List of Populated Places of the Russian Empire, v.36 - Samara Province (St. Petersburg, 1864): 82.
- 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): 613.
- Preliminary Totals of the All-Union Population Census of 1926 of the ASSR of the Germans of Volga Region (Pokrovsk, Russia, 1927): 28-83.
- Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978): 198.
- "Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 17.
- Stumpp, Karl. The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 to 1862 (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1973): 73.
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Migrated From
Immigration Locations
Map showing Paulskaya (1935).
Church in Paulskaya.
Source: Tim Weeder.
Lutheran Church in Paulskaya.
Source: Jorge Bohn.