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| Land of the Settled Nogai Tatars on the Azov Sea with the neighboring countries and German colonies 1829 |
This map is from the book entitled Bruchstücke aus einigen Reisen nach dem südlichen Russland, in den Jahren 1822 bis 1828: mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die Nogayen-Tataren am Asowschen Meere [Fragments from some journeys to southern Russia in the years 1822 to 1828: with special reference to the Nogayen Tatars on the Sea of Azov] by Daniel Schlatter.
Schlatter was a Swiss Baptist missionary who was interested in the Muslim Nogai Tatars living in Taurida province. The Nogai had been exiled from their land near the Sea of Azov by the Russians and then resettled back. They were one of the many population movements the Russians carried out to make room for European colonists, until the European colonists themselves were moved out of the way during WWII.
This book is considered culturally significant and has been digitized by several organizations from the Bavarian State Library to Zürich Central Library to Google Books. The map does not appear in every digitized version.
Given the title of the book, you would not think there would be anything related to the German colonies in it, but there is because the Germans were neighbors of the Nogai as well as the Doukhobors and Malokans, two pacifist groups who sought freedom from the Russian Orthodox Church. Along with the map, the book contains a fairly detailed summary of the European colonization of southern Russia up until 1826, including the German colonies (Protestant, Catholic, Mennonite, Separatists), Jewish settlements, Bulgarian colonies, Greek-Russian settlements (referred to as the Danube settlements), a paragraph on the German colonies in the Volga region down to Sarepta in Astrakhan province, and a brief mention of German colonists in Russian Poland near Warsaw and Bessarabia.
It also contains the full text of the “Privilegium der Mennonite der Rußland,” the document that contained extended exclusively to the Mennonites in Russia by Tsar Paul I on 6 September 1800. I knew about this document but had not seen the text before now.
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| Translated and annotated map. |
The “Land of the German colonists” noted on the map was the Prischib enclave, founded in 1804, with Catholic, Lutheran and Reformed faiths. The “Land of the Mennonites” was the Molotschna Colony founded in 1804. The “Land of the Württemberg Colonists” was the Berdyansk enclave founded in 1822.
The Priscib and Molotschna settlements were separated by the Molochna (Milky) River.
C “Land of the German colonists” — Alt-Monthal, Alt-Nassau, Carlsruh, Durlach, Friedensfeld [Friedrichsfeld], Grünenthal, Heidelberg, Hochstädt, Hoffental, Kronthal [Kronsfeld], Kostheim, Leutershausen [Leitershausen], Neu-Montal, Neu-Nassau, Neudorf, Prischib, Reichenfeld, Rosenthal, Tiefenbrunn, Walldorf, Wasserau, Weinau.
B “Land of the Mennonites” —Alexanderthal, Alexanderwohl, Altenau, Blumenort, Blumenstein, Elisabeththal, Felsenthal, Fischau, Franzthal, Friedensdorf, Fürstenau, Fürstenwerder, Gnadenheim, Grossweid, Halbstadt, Ladekop, Lichtenau, Lichtfeld, Liebenau, Lindenau, Marienthal, Montau [Muntau], Morgenau [Marganau], Münsterberg, Neukirch, Orlof, Pastwa, Petershagen, Pordenau, Praganau, Rosenort, Rückenau, Rudnerweide, Schönau, Schönsee, Shordau [Schardau], Steinbach, Tiege, Tiegenhagen, Tiegerweide, Wernersdorf.
The area labeled F shows the land on which Württemberg Separatists had settled. The area between was that of the Nogai. Even the Separatists’ colonies were separate.
F “Land of the Württemberg Colonists” — Neuhoffnung, Rosenfeld, Neuhoffnungsthal.
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