Sebastian Krieb, a single tailor, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 7 May 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Katharina Eleonora under the command of Skipper Peter Rehder.
Sebastian Krieb, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and son Johannes (age 1-week) are recorded on the 1767 census of Leichtling in Household No. 8. They had settled there on 14 May 1767.
Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Sebastian Krieb came from the German region of Bamberg.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Krieb family among the Volga German colonies.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 53.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #299.
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