Johann Albrecht Richter, a single cobbler (Schuhmacher), settled in the Volga German colony of Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. He is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 178.
Albrecht Richter (age 37), a cobbler (Schuster), and his wife Dorothea Elisabeth née Lichtner (age 21) are recorded on the 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] in Household No. 104.
Albrecht Richter (age 60) and his wife Anna Margaretha née Lichtner (age 47) from Kaneau are recorded on the 1798 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. Ka104.
Both the 1767 census and the 1776 Katharinenstadt Land Register record that Johann Albrecht Richter came from the German village of Neuruppin in the Brandenburg region. The Land Register also records that his wife came from the German village of Mostaca [perhaps Mosigkau] in the Anhalt-Dessau region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Richter family among the Volga German colonies.
- 1776 Katharinenstadt Grundbuch [Land Register] (Household No. 104).
- 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): Ka104.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 313.
Brent Mai