LeRoy and Pictet

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LeRoy and Pictet was the cooperative of the French LeRoy, the Swiss Pictet from Geneva and the German Sunday, who recruited German citizens to resettle in Russia on behalf of the Russian Tsarina Catherine II in the 18th century. In addition to this cooperative there were two more, that of the French Baron Caneu de Beauregard with Major Otto Friedrich and the smaller of Jean de Boffe with Meusnier de Precour and Quentin Benjamin Coulhette d'Hautervive, which had no budget of its own.

The Russian tsarina promised the settlers, tired of wars and economic crises, religious freedom, tax exemption, exemption from compulsory military service and the right to dispose of their land. Thousands of German craftsmen and farmers responded to these recruitment attempts and founded 103 German villages on both sides of the Volga . In this context one speaks of the Volga Germans . The twenty-five colonies of Leroy and Pictet with 1530 families and 5339 settlers were founded south of Saratov along the Volga and its left tributaries Great Karaman and Tarlyk east of the Volga, including the Lauwe colony . LeRoy and Pictet later became directors of the colonies.

literature

  • Igor Plewe : Immigration to the Volga Region 1764-1767. Northeast Institute, Göttingen. (Russian)
  • Karl Stumpp: The Emigration from Germany to Russia in the Years 1763 to 1862. Self-published, Tübingen 1972.
  • Adam Geisinger: From Catherine to Khrushchev: the story of Russia's Germans. Marian Press, Winnipeg 1974. (American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, London 1993, ISBN 0-914222-05-8 )
  • Gottlieb Beratz: The German Colonies on the Lower Volga. American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, Lincoln, NE 1991, ISBN 0-914222-20-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philip Keim, The Volga Germans from Immigration to the Abolition of the Kolonistenkontor , diploma thesis, 2006

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