Remmick-Hubert Web Site - Borodino / Bessarabia, S. Russia:  A brief history of Borodino from 1814 to 1940

Last Update 24 April 2002

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A BRIEF  HISTORY OF BORODINO

Deportation of German-Russians from Borodino to Germany

Borodino from Heimatbuch der Bessarabiandeutschen -English Translation

COMMUNITY CHRONICLES OF BESSARABIA, 1848 -English Translation

Borodino.Bess.Genealogy Web Site - Lists Colonists Genealogy 1814 to 1940 plus Des.

Christina, nee Schweikert, Hein Remembers -English Translation

Memories of Borodino Bess. by Regine, nee Hess,  Hein as told to Flossie Libra

Stories of Deporation in 1940

List of Borodinoians Deported in 1940

Migration List of Borodinoians, In and Outside of Russia After 1814

Borodino, A List of Historical Dates from Pre Roman Times to 1991

List of Photogaphs of Borodino

A Time to Remember by Allyn Brosz

Bessarabian History Home Site Index Page

Before 1812

Soak Creek - A Turkish Village in Bessarabia, Moldavia before it became a German colony known as Borodino

Location is south of the Bessarabian capital of Kischnev and north of the Black Sea and west of the sea port city of Odessa

1812

Russian troops took control of area around Soak Creek

• 16 May 1812 Treaty of Bucharest signed which separated Bessarabia from  the Turkish Moldavia and Walachia

Turkish villagers removed in 1812 by Russian troops

German emigrants discovered Soak Creek

• A few German soldiers who had entered Russia as part of Napoleon's army fled south by foot, dog cart or wagons while Moscow burned and settled in  or near Soak and their families arrived later or they married girls from other villages also settled by Germans

1814

100 German emigrant families, who were mostly Lutherans,  settled in Soak

• There were a number of women who's husbands were still   fighting in the Tsar's Army against  Napoleon who had taken control of German states in 1806-7.

Village renamed Alexander after Tsar Alexander I

Village, again,  renamed: Borodino after the famous Battle of Borodino of 1812 fought between the Russians and Napoleon in 1812

• The Battle of Borodino was fought near Moscow in 1812  and is noted as the beginning of Napoleon's downfall

1817

Another wave of German emigrants settle in Borodino in 1817 and were known as the Seventeeners as were their descendants even in the 1920s

• Records indicate that 320 families were granted three horse driven flour mill, and, each adult male was granted 60 desitanes [a quarter] of land along with a sod house, barn pair of oxen, a wagon and plow.  See Jack Wagner's letter in Bessarabian Newslerter, January 2000, Volume 3, Issue3..... @ Bessarbian Website by Debbie Beick : Some families did not need aid from the Russian government.

1850

Lutheran Church, which would hold 750 people, was built. It was connected to the church in Kloetitz / Besssarabia. See picture.

1856

Village remained a  German-Russian Colony from 1814 to 1856 under the Tsars of Russia

1856-1878 Congress of Berlin united Bessarabia, Moldavia and Walachia and Borodino falls under the rule of Rumania

• Charles of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Prince [1866] & King of Rumania [1881] which incorporated Borodino/Bess. for a time before it was returned to Russia
  • Parents: Charles Anrthony, Pr. of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Josephine d. of Charles G.D. of Baden

1878

Borodino and Bessarabia were  united with Russia

1914

Great War began against Germany

1940

Invasion of German Troops

Most German-Russians of Borodino were  deported to Germany

• All human rights were ignored

• Picture above show some of the Heins on this forced trek to Germany

• During deportation they suffered losses by attacks of planes, tanks, artillery fire from Soviet troops plus starvation and hostility from German troops

• A Time to Remember by Allyn Brosz

1997

German-Russians who left Borodino in 1940 have been helping the present day villagers to rebuild Borodino and have completed a museum in memory of their ancestors

No German-Russian families of orginal German colonists presently live in Borodino, Rebublic of Ukraine....

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