Christoph Andreas Pletner and Margaretha Magdalena Stelting were married 15 April 1766 in St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Lübeck.
Christian [sic] Blätner, a baker (Bäcker), and his wife Margaretha arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 May 1766 aboard the galliot named Adler (Eagle) under the command of the Skipper Paul Adolph Drath.
They arrived in the Volga German colony of Stahl am Tarlyk on 13 September 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 55.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Christian [sic] Blätner came from the German region of Holstein. The 1767 census records that Christoph [sic] Blätner came from the German village of Kiel.
There do not appear to be any surviving male descendants of this Blätner among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 123.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #48.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 4 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2008): 216.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766 (Saratov: State Technical University, 2010): #697.
Brent Mai