The German minority population in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union stemmed from several sources and arrived in several waves. Since the second half of the 19th century, as a consequence of the Ru
Catherine the Great - the most famous Russian Empress of German descent
Germans in East Europe, 1925
1920, a German farmer couple from the Volga region in the refugee camp Schneidemühl, Posen-West Prussia (now Piła, Poland)
Monument to Admiral Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in Kronstadt, Russia
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The Volga Germans are ethnic Germans who settled and historically lived along the Volga River in the region of southeastern European Russia around Saratov and close to Ukraine nearer to the south.
History of Germans in Russia, Ukraine, and the Soviet Union
…of all German settlers in western Canada were Germans from Russia." By 1876, the Empire of Brazil, now Brazil, was a monarchy and Pedro II invited the Volga Germans and other Germans from Russia to populate his territory. From then on, waves of German immigrants settled in the states of São Paulo, Paraná, Santa…
Catherine the Great.
Temporary quarters for Volga Germans in central Kansas, 1875.
Volga German pioneer family commemorative statue in Victoria, Kansas, US by Pete Felten, 1976
Flags of Argentina, Buenos Aires Province and Germany in front of St. Joseph Catholic Church in San José, Coronel Suárez Partido, Argentina (Volga German colony).