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Menge*

Martin Menger [sic] 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.

Martin Menger [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Johann Martin Menge, a single farmer, is recorded on a list of Beauregard recruits (No. 163) appended to the 1767 census. It is not known in which colony he settled.

The 1767 census records that Johann Martin Menge came from the German village of Schwimbach.

Ignatius*

Konrad Ignati [sic], a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 22 August 1766 aboard a galliot named Eva Maria under the command of Skipper Franz Christopher Schröder.

Konrad Ignati [sic] is recorded on a list of colonists being transported from St. Petersburg to Saratov in 1767.

Konrad Ignatius, a single tailor (Schneider), is recorded on a list of Beauregard Recruits (No. 164) appended to the 1767 census. It is not known in which colony he settled.

Eber*

The marriage of Anna Maria Eber & Wilhelm Heinrich Luhm is recorded in the parish register of Coswig on 20 July 1766. It reads as follows:

Metyard

The widow and son (Heinrich Metyard, age 14) of Peter Metyard from Meinhard are recorded on the 1798 census of Näb in Household No. Nb35.

Blumental, Stavropol Krai (North Caucasus)

Blumental (also called Blumenfeld) first appears on a 1873 list of populated places in the Stavropol district, located adjacent to a village of the landowner Zolotarev. [The colony of Friedrichsfeld was founded on Zolotarev's land in 1884.]

It was located on the right bank of the Big Kugulta [Бол. Кугульта] River about 80 kilometers northeast of Stavropol.

There are a couple of recorded versions of the estabishment of Blumental.

Friedrichsfeld, Stavropol Krai (North Caucasus)

Friedrichsfeld was founded in 1885 by ethnic German colonists relocating from the Kherson Province. They were later joined by Volga German colonists relocating from both the Saratov and Samara Provinces.

The colonists bought 4,000 desyatins on the right bank of the Big Kugulta [Бол. Кугульта] River about 70 kilometers northeast of Stavropol from Fyodor Zolotarev after whom the village took its Russian name of Zolotarevka.

In 1941, all of the German inhabitants were deported to Asiatic Russia.

Bethel, Stavropol Krai (North Caucasus)

Bethel was founded in 1879 along the right bank of the Big Kugulta [Бол. Кугульта] River about 70 kilometers northeast of Stavropol.

The original families that settled in Bethel came directly from Prussia. They were joined by Black Sea and Volga German colonists resettling from the Kherson, Taurida, and Samara Provinces and Bessarabia.

During the Russian Civil War (1917) the village was badly damaged by fire and many families fled to the colonies of the northern Black Sea region.

In 1941, the remaining German inhabitants of Bethel were deported to Asiatic Russia.

Martinsfeld, Stavropol Krai (North Caucasus)

Martinsfeld was a colony founded in 1868, but there were German-Russian inhabitants living there as early as 1865. It was located on the right bank of the Big Kugulta [Бол. Кугульта] River about 70 kilometers northeast of Stavropol. The land (2,018 desyatins) had been purchased from State Councilor Martinov after whom it was named.

Early inhabitants were Black Sea and Volga German colonists resettling from the Kherson, Taurida, and Samara Provinces and Bessarabia.

In 1915, the village was renamed to Martinovka.

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