Schüller (Orlovskaya)

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Schüller (Orlovskaya)
Schiller (Orlovskaya)
Шилеръ (Orlovskaya)
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Discussion & Documentation: 

Leonhard Schüller, a single stonemason (Maurer), arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 10 August 1766 aboard a ship under the command of Skipper Nikolaus Peter Pink.

Leonhardt Schüler [sic] is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

He settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 3 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 79 along with his new wife Katharina.

Both the Oranienbaum passenger list and the 1767 census record that Leonhard Schüller came from the German region of Ansbach.

Sources: 

- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 3 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2005): 328.
- Pleve, Igor. Lists of Colonists to Russia in 1766: Reports by Ivan Kulberg (Saratov: Saratov State Technical University, 2010): #4375.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #5160.

Contributor(s) to this page: 

Brent Mai

Volga Colonies