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

Last Update 7 March 2014

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A BRIEF  HISTORY OF BORODINO

Pic. Deportation-1940

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

Turkish villagers were removed in 1812 by Russian troops

German emigrants discovered Soak Creek

1814

100 German emigrant families, who were mostly Lutherans, migrated to Russia under the leadership of Herr Krueger and sought possession of land which included the village of Soak in Bessarabia that the Russians had assigned them.

1815

15 families arrived to join the 100 plus.  The plus were the children born in the village.

The huts were replaced with a foundation and adobe brick with thatched roofs and this improved their living quarters.

Advanced loans provided by the Russian government gave the 117 colonists an allowance that paid for "a yoke of oxen", "a cow", "some farm equipment", "seed-grain".  Thosse who had the funds purchassed horses and wagons.

 

Village renamed Alexander after Tsar Alexander I

Village, again,  renamed and called Borodino after the famous Battle of Borodino of 1812 fought between the Russians and Napoleon in 1812.before Napolton entered Moscow as the Russian army retreated.  One should no confuse the Borodino near Moscow with our Borodino in Bessarabia.  

1817

Another wave of German emigrants settle in Borodino in 1817 and were known as the Seventeeners, according to my grandmother, Christina, nee Schweikert, Hein, who said that as children they used to tease the "Seventeeners" as being the "late comers".

1824

1825

1827

1828

1827

1831

1833

1836

1838

1839

1845

1847

1850

Lutheran Church, which would hold 750 people, was built. It was connected to the Lutheran 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

1878

Borodino and Bessarabia were  reunited with Russia

1914

Great War began against Germany

1940

Invasion of German Troops

Most German-Russians of Borodino were  deported to Germany

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....

More Dates to See - A List of Historical Dates from Pre Roman Times to 1991

 

Transportation:  Up to WW I,  the roads through and around Borodino were not paved.  Otterstaetter's report [translated by google] on Borodino, page 1,  gives us the following description:  "They were all-including the village streets-unpaved.  This meant that in late autumn, in winter, were impassable if they were not frozen, and in early spring.  In those years... were passageways and the steets of village so muddy that the traffic, only with two wheel tractors (horse cart) or on horsebak was possible.  In summer, the dust was 5 to 10 inches thick on the street."  His web site can be found at:  http://www.otterstaetter.de/home 

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