Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Weights and measures
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- I Antecedents
- 2 Catherine II and the Manifestos of 1762 and 1763
- 3 The response: settlement 1763–1775
- 4 Southern Russia 1764—1796
- 5 Urban and entrepreneurial settlement under the 1763 Manifesto
- 6 Immigration and colonies 1797–1804
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- I The official English-language version of the Manifesto of 1763
- II An Announcement Concerning the Benefits and Advantages of the Colony Katharinenlehn, which is being established on the patterns of the Swiss cantons
- III A contemporary British comment on the emigration to Russia
- IV Observations Sur La Levée des Colonies Russes & L'Emigration des Families Françoises
- V Der zu Strelina mit denen Collonisten, so nach der Ukraine sich zu Etabeliren willig gemacht geschlossener Contract
- VI Rules concerning the reception in future of colonists
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
II - An Announcement Concerning the Benefits and Advantages of the Colony Katharinenlehn, which is being established on the patterns of the Swiss cantons
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Weights and measures
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- I Antecedents
- 2 Catherine II and the Manifestos of 1762 and 1763
- 3 The response: settlement 1763–1775
- 4 Southern Russia 1764—1796
- 5 Urban and entrepreneurial settlement under the 1763 Manifesto
- 6 Immigration and colonies 1797–1804
- Conclusion
- Appendices
- I The official English-language version of the Manifesto of 1763
- II An Announcement Concerning the Benefits and Advantages of the Colony Katharinenlehn, which is being established on the patterns of the Swiss cantons
- III A contemporary British comment on the emigration to Russia
- IV Observations Sur La Levée des Colonies Russes & L'Emigration des Families Françoises
- V Der zu Strelina mit denen Collonisten, so nach der Ukraine sich zu Etabeliren willig gemacht geschlossener Contract
- VI Rules concerning the reception in future of colonists
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
One important form of publicity used by recruiting agents in Europe was the broadsheet, a printed or manuscript handbill. Among the papers of the Chancellery of Guardianship relating to the cancellation of Beauregard's contract is a Russian translation of such a broadsheet, used by Beauregard and his agents, and dated 1765.
TsGADA f. 248, kn. 3762, II. 491–40b (Author's translation from Russian.)
An Announcement Concerning the Benefits and Advantages of the Colony Katharinenlehn, which is being established on the patterns of the Swiss cantons
This colony is situated between 50 and 52 degrees of latitude from the Equator, opposite Saratov on the river Volga. The climate, as far as concerns the mildness of the air, is similar to that of Lyons in France, for the cold continues for scarcely three months. The soil, which is blackish in quality, is extraordinarily fertile, and without manuring, in return for little labour, gives fifteen and sixteen times the amount sown; and there are incontestable proofs that new settlers who arrived there in the spring of last year received peas one hundred fold over their sowing, although that sowing was done hastily and later than usual.
There are the most magnificent meadows there, also a great quantity of stock. The cows are similar to the Dutch breed both in quality and size, and the horses are so swift that they can travel from twelve to fifteen German miles in a day, and they cost no more than five or six roubles.
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- Human CapitalThe Settlement of Foreigners in Russia 1762–1804, pp. 243 - 247Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1979