Andreas Kaltenschnee (age 25) is recorded on a list of colonists recruited by Johann Facius.
Andræas Kaltenschnee & Susanna Eisenhut [see Eisenhuth family], both from Mauswinckel, were married on 9 April 1766 in the Lutheran Church of Büdingen.
Andreas Kaltenschnee, a farmer, and his wife Anna arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 June 1766 aboard a boat named Святая Екатерина (Saint Catherine) under the command of Midshipman Alexander Trusov.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dobrinka on 20 June 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 89.
Andreas Kaltenschnee and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dobrinka in Household No. Db28.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Andreas Kaltenschnee came from the German region of Isenburg. The 1767 census records that Andreas Kaltenschnee came from the German village of Obelis near Ridelsch.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 30.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 182.
- List of those recruited by Johann Facius from 13 November 1765 to 18 February 1766.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga: Economy, Population, and Agriculture (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Db28.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt. German Migration to the Russian Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #507.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 338.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #1202.
Brent Mai