Title: Letters and papers of Johann Cornies.
Authors: Cornies, Johann, 1789-1848; Dyck, Harvey L.; Staples, John Roy, 1961-; Epp, Ingrid I.
Year: 2015
Subjects: Cornies, Johann, Correspondence.; Germans Ukraine, Southern Correspondence.; Mennonites Ukraine, Southern Correspondence.; Germans Ukraine, Southern History; Mennonites Ukraine, Southern History
Abstract: "In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Among the immigrants who arrived were communities of Prussian Mennonites, recruited as "model colonists" to bring progressive agricultural methods to the east. Transformation on the Southern Ukrainian Steppe documents the Tsarist Mennonite experience through the papers of Johann Cornies (1789-1848), an ambitious and energetic leader of the Mennonite colony of Molochna."--
Contents: Volume 1: 1812-1835. Transformation on the southern Ukrainian steppe / translated by Ingrid I. Epp ; edited by Harvey L Dyck, Ingrid I. Epp, and John R. Staples.