[Johann] Peter Gross, his wife Anna, and daughter Gertruda arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the Russian galliot named Kronverk under the command of Lieutenant Dmitry Ilyin.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Müller on 16 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 2.
In 1790, Peter Gross and his family moved from Müller to Kraft.
Abel Hoffmann, a single man, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 19 July 1766 aboard the barque named Fortitudo under the command of Skipper John Scott.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Müller on 16 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 13 along with his new wife Elisabeth.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Abel Hoffmann came from the German region of Darmstadt. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Zell.
Johann Hoff, a single farmer, arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 9 August 1766 aboard the pink Slon under the command of Lieutenant Sergey Panov.
He settled in the Volga German colony of Müller on 16 August 1767 and is recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 38.
The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Johann Hoff came from the German region of Darmstadt.
The Büdingen marriage register records marriage of Johannes Geist from Reppeshain [Rebgeshain] & Anna Catharina Schmidt from Kirtorff [sic] on 15 May 1766.
Johann Heinrich Geist, a farmer, and his wife [Anna] Katharina arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 29 July 1766 aboard the ship Apollo under the command of Skipper Friedrich Detloff Mörenberg.
They settled in the Volga German colony of Müller on 16 August 1767 and are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 36.
The first German colony in the North Caucasus (today called North Ossetia) was founded in 1861 on the north outskirts of Vladikavkaz on the right bank of the River Terek. It was called Vladikavkaz German Colony. There were 40 families in the original settlement of Michaelsdorf consisting of 148 men and 143 women. Of those, 37 familes came from the Bergseite, 1 family from the Wiesenseite, 1 from the Novgorod District, and one "foreigner" August Brenz. There were also Germans living in the town of Vladikavkaz itself. As of 1874, there were 248 Germans living there.
Peter Schwartz (age 23), a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Barbara Furmann (age 24), and daughter Susanna (age ½) are recorded on a list of colonists dated 23 September 1765 who were gathering in the town of Worms. They had arrived in Worms on 21 September 1765.
Peter Schwarz, a farmer, his wife Barbara, and daughters (Susanna, age 3; Anna Elisabeth, age ½) are recorded on the 1767 census of Volmer in Household No. 39. They had arrived in Volmer on 18 July 1767.
Peter Schwartz and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm05.
Johannes Rühl, a farmer, and his wife Katharina settled in the Volga German colony of Volmer on 18 July 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 38.
Georg Rühl, presumed son of Johannes Ruhl, and his family is recorded on the 1798 census of Volmer in Household No. Vm24.
The death of Georg Rühl in 1829 is recorded on the 1834 census of Husaren in Household No. 52. His family is also recorded there along with a note that son Anton relocated to the colony of Seelmann in 1826 and son Franz relocated to the colony of Neu-Kolonie.
Johannes Ringelmann, a miller (Müller), his wife Katharina, and daughter Anna Maria (age 1½) settled in the Volga German colony of Volmer on 1 April 1767.
They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 46.
The 1834 census of Volmer records in Household No. 96 that Johannes Ringelmann and his brothers Lorenz and Peter moved from Volmer to Göbel in 1824. The 1834 census of Göbel records in Household No. 59 that they arrived from Volmer in 1822.
The 1767 census records that Johannes Ringelmann came from the German region of Würzburg.