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Karl (Orlovskaya)

There are two Karl families that settled in the Volga German colony of Orlovskaya on 7 June 1767. They are believed to be father and son.

Both Christian Karl (age 55) and his wife Elisabeth along with Gottfried Karl (age 24) and his wife Barbara arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity.

Christian Carl, his wife Barbara, Gottfried Carl and his wife Mari. Elisabeth are recorded on the list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Karle (Nieder-Monjou / Paulskaya)

There are two Carle families from Elpenrod that arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the English frigate Love & Unity under the command of Skipper Thomas Fairfax. Their relationship to each other needs further research.

(1) Johann Adam Carle, son of Johann Dietrich (junior) Carle & Maria Christ, was born on 8 July 1739 in Elpenrod.

Johann Adam married Anna Dorothea Schlosser, daughter of Georg Schlosser & Anna Catharina Gieß, in Ober-Omen on 16 February 1762.

Wogau

Georg Reichelt, a barber (Friseur), his wife Sophia Magdalena, and stepchildren (Sophia Dorothea [Wogau], age 16; Sigmund [Wogau], age 13; Christina Dorothea [Wogau], age 11; Karl Friedrich [Wogau], age 9) are recorded on the 1767 census of Katharinenstadt in Household No. 11. They had arrived in Katharinenstadt on 27 August 1766. [See Reichelt Family.]

The 1776 Land Register of Katharinenstadt records that Georg Reichelt died in 1782. His widow is recorded there as Magdalena Sophia Lang, and she died in 1783.

Reichelt*

Johann Melchior Reichelt, a barber (Friseur), died 10 September 1748 in Bullenheim at the age of 49. He married Anna Katherina [surname unknown] who died in Bullenheim on 20 January 1773.

Pilnyak (Wogau), Boris

Boris Pilnyak was born Boris Wogau, son of Andreas Wogau and Olga Ivanovna Savinova, on 29 September 1894. His father was a Volga German, born 26 August 1867 in Katharinenstadt.

He was a Russian author whose most famous works were novels concerning revolutionary and post-revolutionary Russia. He fell out of favor with the Communists and was arrested on 28 October 1937 on charges of counter-revolutionary activities, spying, and terrorism. He was tried on 21 April 1938, convicted, and executed.

Keller (Keller)*

Johannes Keller, a farmer, and his family arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 18 June 1766 aboard the hooker Anna Catharina under the command of Skipper Adolph Scharpenberg.

They settled in the Volga German colony of Keller on 12 May 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 1. He is recorded there as the mayor (Vorsteher) of the colony and it is after him that the colony was named.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Keller came from the German village of Günsbach [believed to be Gimbsbach] in the Kurpfalz region.

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