Balzar [sic] Rudolph, a hosier (Strumpfwirker), his wife Eva, and children (Katharina, age 9; Johann, age 5¼) arrived from Lübeck via Reval [Estonia] at the port of Oranienbaum on 25 May 1766 aboard a pinque named Новая Двинка (New Dvinka [a river in Russia]) under the command of Lieutenant Ivan Perepechin.
Balthasar Rudolph and his family are recorded on the 1775 census of Grimm in Household No. 74.
The 1798 census of Grimm records Balthasar Rudolph in Household No. Gm116.
Johann Adam Rudolph from Grimm and his family are recorded on the 1857 census of Oberdorf in Household No. 47.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Balzer [sic] Rudolph came from the German region of Isenburg.
- 1775 Grimm Census (Household No. 74).
- 1857 Oberdorf Census (Household No. 47).
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Auswanderung deutscher Kolonisten nach Russland im Jahre 1766 (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2019): 29.
- Idt, Andreas and Georg Rauschenbach. Deutsche Kolonisten im Jahr 1766 in Oranienbaum und in den Siedlungsorten: Die Kuhlberg-Listen (Moscow: Idt & Rauschenbach, 2024): 102.
- 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): Gm057, Gm116.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #499.
Brent Mai