Richter (Orlovskaya)*
Dr. Hermann Wäschke records that Hans George Richter, a tenant (Mietsmann), with his wife, and two children (one son & one daughter), from Mosigkau in the district of [Anhalt]-Dessau, immigrated to Russia.
Georg Richter, a farmer, his wife Sophia, and children (Henrietta, age 15½; Gottlieb, age 3) are recorded on the 1767 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. 51. They had arrived in Orlovskaya on 7 June 1767.
Maria Richter, daughter of the deceased Gottlieb Richter, is recorded on the 1798 census of Orlovskaya in Household No. Or13.
The 1767 census records that Georg Richter came from the German village of Mosigkau in the Dessau Region.
There are no known surviving male lines of this Richter family among the Volga German colonies.
- Mai, Brent Alan. 1798 Census of the German Colonies along the Volga (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1999): Or13.
- Mai, Brent Alan and Dona Reeves-Marquardt, German Migration to the Russian Volga (1764-1767) (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2003): #1139.
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 322.
- Wäschke, Hermann. "Deutsche Familien in Russland" in Roland, Archiv für Stamm- und Wappenkunde, Jubiläumsschrift, 18 January 1912: 84.
Brent Mai