Kind Colony on the Volga: Coming Together, Their Lives and Diaspora

This 734-page book holds more than 75 illustrations and gives the history of those who responded to Catherine the Great’s invitation to settle in Russia. This book details their lives in Russia and the destruction of the village of Kind.
Other useful information on the village of Kind:

• The location the First Settlers came from in Germany
• Detailed management of their lives by the Kontora such as marriages, finding guardians for orphans, and investigating crimes
• Their religious and spiritual lives
• Zemstvo meetings detailing tax information of business owners in Kind
• Village officials and policemen in the community
• Details of deportation from Kind in 1941
• Stories of a Pickelhaupt and Rempe family from Kind deported to Kazakhstan
• Details of migrants from Kind who came to the United States

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