August Marschal von Biberstein, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 16 August 1766 aboard a snow-brig named Prinz Carl (Prince Carl) under the command of Skipper Christopher Losser.
August Marschal von Bieberstein [sic] is recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.
Karl August von Biberstein, a single Prussian Officer (preußischer Offizier), is recorded on an appendix to the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 49 along with a note that he relocated to the colony of Biberstein in 1768.
It is after him that the colony of Biberstein took its name.
The 1767 census records that Karl August von Biberstein came from the German region of Zens.
There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.
- 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): 828.
- Oranienbaum passenger list #6631 [not included on the Kuhlberg List published by Igor Plehve].
- Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet 1764-1767 Band 2 (Göttingen: Der Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 2001): 332.
- Rauschenbach, Georg. Deutsche Kolonisten auf dem Weg von St. Petersburg nach Saratow: Transportlisten von 1766-1767 (Moscow: G.V. Rauschenbach, 2017): #4042.
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