There are several Müller families that settled in Dietel.
Johann Müller, a farmer, his wife Anna, and their family (Anna, age 17¼; Maria, age 15¼; Andreas, age 12; Christian, age 10¼; Johannes, age 8; Christina, age 7; Michael, age 4; and Peter, age ¼) arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Neptunus (Neptune) under the command of Skipper Johann Graap.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Dietel.
Andreas Müller and his wife, Margaretha Wolf, are recorded on the 1798 census of Bauer (Br02) as being from Dietel.
Christian Müller and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Dietel in Household No. Dt25.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Müller came from the German region of Alsace.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 34.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 738.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Br02.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #5901.
Brent Mai