A study of the German Lutheran and Catholic immigrants in Canada, formerly residing in Tzarist and Soviet Russia
Journal: cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
Year: 2012

After Empress Katherine II of Russia issued a Manifesto in 1763, inviting European settlers to Russia, a substantial number of Germans immigrated and settled, with special privileges, on the left and right hand banks of the lower Volga River. The Napoleonic wars temporarily stopped this first influx of Germans into Russia. With the beginning of the 19th century, a second immigration of Germans started to Russia, which resulted in the foundation of numerous German settlements in the Black Sea reg