The congregation in Müller was part of the Stephan parish which had been founded in 1771.
Müller was founded on 16 August 1767 by the Government as a Lutheran colony.
The colony of Müller no longer exists, but its streets are still visible by satellite image.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
38
|
113
|
|
|
| 1769 |
34
|
112
|
54
|
58
|
| 1773 |
35
|
142
|
69
|
73
|
| 1788 |
36
|
206
|
101
|
105
|
| 1798 |
39
|
260
|
124
|
136
|
| 1816 |
51
|
413
|
205
|
208
|
| 1834 |
34
|
713
|
366
|
347
|
| 1850 |
126
|
1,153
|
584
|
569
|
| 1857 |
105
|
1,412
|
698
|
714
|
| 1859 |
91
|
1,454
|
722
|
732
|
| 1886 |
129
|
1,043
|
541
|
502
|
| 1891 |
131
|
1,576
|
846
|
730
|
| 1894 |
145
|
1,751
|
926
|
825
|
| 1897 |
|
1,084*
|
542
|
542
|
| 1905 |
|
2,466
|
|
|
| 1911 |
|
2,472
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
2,488
|
|
|
| 1920 |
232**
|
1,367
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,022
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
181
|
911
|
429
|
482
|
| 1931 |
|
1,198****
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,069 were German.
**Of which 230 households were German.
***Of whom 909 were German (180 households: 428 male & 481 female).
****Of whom 1,197 were German.
Lutheran
Beratz, Gottieb. The German colonies on the Lower Volga, their origin and early development: a memorial for the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first German settlers on the Volga, 29 June 1764 . Translated by Adam Giesinger (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1991): 351.
Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon. Moscow, 2006.
List of Settlements in the Russian Empire in 1859, vol. 38: Saratov Province (St. Petersburg, 1862): p.59.
Mink, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province [in Russian] (Saratov, Russia, 1898): 541-544.
Orlov, Gregorii. Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II , 14 February 1769.
Pallas, P.S. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Theil 3,2, Reise aus Sibirien zurueck an die Wolga im 1773sten Jahr (St. Petersburg: Kaiserl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 1776): 621.
Pleve, Igor R. The German Colonies on the Volga: The Second Half of the Eighteenth Century , translated by Richard Rye (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 2001): 318.
Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
Schnurr, Joseph, Die Kirchen und das Religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen - Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, 1972): 193.
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 18.
Müller (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian
Muller Original Settlers List (Bill Wiest)
Village of Mueller (Lower Volga Village Project)