Description
In the eighteenth and 19th centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural payment. A number of the immigrants who arrived had been groups of Prussian Mennonites, recruited as “fashion colonists” to carry modern agricultural the best way to the east. Transformation at the Southern Ukrainian Steppe files the Tsarist Mennonite enjoy during the papers of Johann Cornies (1789–1848), an formidable and lively chief of the Mennonite colony of Molochna.
Cornies was once neatly attached within the imperial govt, and his papers be offering a window no longer simply into the sector of the Molochna Mennonites but additionally into the Tsarist state’s courting with the nationwide minorities of the frontier: Mennonites, Doukhbors, Nogai Tartars, and Jews. This number of his letters and reviews, translated into English, is a useful useful resource for students of all facets of existence in Tsarist Ukraine and for the ones focused on Mennonite historical past.
