Berger (Paulskaya)

The following marriage is recorded in the parish register of the church in Coswig:

"den 1. April 1766 ist Meister Andreas Eberhart Bergen, Fleischhauer, Kaiserlicher Russischer Kolonist in Katharinen Lehn, verstorbenen Meisters Johann Gottfried Bergens, Bürgers und Schneiders zu Arendsburg in Liefland, nachgelassener ehelicher einiger Sohn und Frau Maria Dorothea Schrodtin, geboren Kliekin, verstorbenen Meisters N. Schrodts, Bürgers und Töpffers in Freyburg nachgelassene Witwe in hiesiger Kirche eingesegnet und getraut worden."

[Translation: "On 1 April 1766 the marriage of Andreas Eberhart Bergen, butcher and Imperial Russian colonist, legitimate son of the deceased Johann Gottfried Bergen who was a citizen and tailor from Aren(d)sburg in Liefland [Livonia, today Estonia], and Maria Dorothea Schrodt née Kliek, widow of the deceased citizen and potter N. Schrodt from Freyburg, was consecrated in the local parish church."

Andreas Berger, his wife Maria, and son Ferdinand (age 8) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.

Andreas Berger and his wife Maria Dorothea are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Andreas Berger and his wife Dorothea settled in the Volga German colony of Paulskaya on 3 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 85.

The widow and children of Andreas Berger from Paulskaya are recorded on the 1798 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. Or48.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Berger was a stonemason while the 1767 census records that he was a miller (Müller).

The 1767 census records that Andreas Berger was from the German village of Artburg [?] in Sachsen (Saxony).