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Feb 17, 2024 · Are Germans Vikings? The Norse sea-faring raiders we today call Vikings did not come from Germany, but rather its Northern European neighbors in Scandinavia; Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. Vikings did settle within the borders of modern-day Northern Germany, with Hedeby and Sliasthorp likely being the most influential ones. Vikings in Germany
The Volga Germans ( German: Wolgadeutsche, pronounced [ˈvɔlɡaˌdɔɪ̯t͡ʃə] ⓘ; Russian: поволжские немцы, romanized : povolzhskiye nemtsy) are ethnic Germans who settled and historically lived along the Volga River in the region of southeastern European Russia around Saratov and close to Ukraine nearer to the south.
A large number of German-Russians, descendants of those who elected to remain in Russia, still live in the Soviet Union. The census of 1959 counted over 1,600,000 Germans living in the Soviet Union and that number grew to 2,300,000 by 1983.
- Alexander Nevsky. Alexander Nevsky, the second son of Prince Yaroslav, was born in 1221 to a country torn apart by internal strife and threatened by foreign enemies.
- Alexander Suvorov. In 1730, a son was born to Lt. Col. Vasili Suvorov. The father, who eventually rose to the ranks of a full general and a senator, was a great admirer of Alexander Nevsky and named his son after his hero.
- Peter Kotlyarevski. Peter Stepanovich Kotlyarevski was born a son a village priest in eastern Ukraine in 1782 and was set to follow in his father’s footsteps until fate intervened.
- Mikhail Skobelev. Mikhail Dmitrievich Skobelev was born on September 29, 1843, in the Peter-and-Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg, where his father was serving as a lieutenant and his grandfather was the commandant.
Jul 21, 2013 · 250 years ago, Russia’s tsarina Catherine the Great signed a manifesto inviting foreigners to settle in her country. A German national herself, Catherine's decree marked the beginning of the ...
Jun 9, 2021 · According to the Russian chronicler, Nestor, the elite – the grand princes of the Russian Empire – descended in a direct line from the Russian Viking Rurik, who in the year 862 was brought from Southern Scandinavia to Russia at the instigation of local tribes. Five princes, all descendants of Rurik, gathered and seized power in the “Rusrikr”.
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Aug 20, 2020 · Despite 2% of all drafted men in the Russian Army in WWI being Volga-Germans, the Russian government gave in to pressure that had been mounting since the 1880s to use them as a scapegoat. The...
