This book documents the Tsarist Mennonite experience through the papers of Johann Cornies (1789-1848), an ambitious and energetic leader of the Mennonite settlement of Molochna. Cornies’ papers offer a widow onto both the Mennonite world, and onto the Tsarist state’s relationship with minorities of the frontier.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
Translator’s Note
Introduction
Part One: Correspondence
1836
1837
1838
1839
1840
1841
1842
Part Two: Johann Cornies’ Archaeological Excavation Reports
Editors’ Introduction
Reports
Appendix I: Genealogy of Johann Cornies’ Immediate Family
Appendix II: List of Correspondents
Appendix III: Glossary
Appendix IV: Chronology
Index