To those who didn’t know them, they were called the “Dirty Russians.” But the Volga-Deutsch, who were misunderstood by those unlike them were actually ethnic Germans who had immigrated here from ...

From 1764 to 1767, 23,000 Germans emigrated to a small area of Russia along the Volga River at the behest of Russia’s German-born princess, Catherine the Great. A total of 104 colonies were founded ...

When seven tired travelers ended their journey at the Sheboygan railroad depot in 1892, there was no fanfare. Like other immigrants before them, those three men, three women and a boy from half a ...

HAYS, Kan. (KSNW) — A group of descendants of an ethnic group that settled across Kansas in its early years as a state is making preparations to celebrate the 150th anniversary of their first arrival.

During the Berlin Blockade in 1948, Ernst Reuter became famous as the mayor of West Berlin. What is less known about Reuter is that Stalin personally sent him on a mission to convert Volga Germans to ...