Letters and Papers of Johann Cornies, Volume I: 1812-1835
by
Ingrid I. Epp
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Russian empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement. Among the immigrants who arrived were communities of Prussian Mennonites, recruited as “model colonists” to bring progressive agricultural methods to the east. Transformation...