Nikolaus Leonhardt, a farmer, and his wife Anna Maria arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 15 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Diana under the command of Skipper Markus Draguhn.
Widower Nikolaus Leonhard, a farmer, settled in the Volga German colony of Hölzel on 5 September 1767. His wife had died during the journey from St. Petersburg to the Volga region. Nikolaus is recorded on the 1767 census of Hölzel in Household No. 59.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Nikolaus Leonhardt came from the German region of Bamberg. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Nigausdorf in the Bamberg region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
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