The Volga Germans were invited by Catherine the Great to help introduce more modern agricultural methods to the Russians.
The Volga Germans were invited by Catherine the Great to help introduce more modern agricultural methods to the Russians.
That’s my people. Some relatives visited the area of villages that my ancestors left, back in the 1980s. When the tidy and efficient Germans left, the villages went to pot. Just goes to show that people don’t appreciate what they are given.