My wife Rosi and I are Volga Germans. Our ancestors settled in the Russian Empire at the invitation of Catherine the Great in the 1760s. The colonists were given free land and exemption from ...

Despite additional land grants in 1840, the growing German population along the Volga faced a shortage of farm land. There were crop failures in the late 1870s and droughts in 1885, 1889 ...

Immigrants to the Volga region came mainly from the German ... who located inexpensive and abundant land in 1874, German migration from Russia eventually reached massive proportions.

The government had granted the railroad acres and acres of land along its tracks, and the railroad turned around and sold it to the immigrants. Volga Germans were not so lucky. Their farms ...

An exhibit called “The Art of Making Do” is now open at the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum. The display ...

He is a Volga German descendant from Nebraska, where a large group settled. In addition to Volga River villages, the historical society has members descended from Germans who settled near the ...

Many believe the defeat of the German army in Stalingrad ... Where The 'Land Is Soaked In Blood' Cruise ships heading down the Volga navigate a huge bend in the river as the approach Volgograd ...