Franzosen was founded on 28 July 1765 as a Roman Catholic French colony by DeBoffe. Between 1816 and 1834 most of the Catholic families moved to other colonies and colonists from Protestant colonies settled there.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
68
|
160
|
86
|
74
|
| 1769 |
58
|
169
|
98
|
71
|
| 1773 |
46
|
150
|
79
|
71
|
| 1788 |
26
|
143
|
81
|
62
|
| 1798 |
47
|
254
|
139
|
115
|
| 1816 |
79
|
436
|
235
|
201
|
| 1834 |
114
|
776
|
405
|
371
|
| 1850 |
136
|
1,248
|
641
|
607
|
| 1857 |
146
|
1,435
|
728
|
707
|
| 1859 |
125
|
1,460
|
735
|
725
|
| 1886 |
208
|
1,765
|
915
|
850
|
| 1891 |
194
|
2,231
|
1,145
|
1,086
|
| 1894 |
201
|
2,232
|
1,151
|
1,081
|
| 1897 |
|
1,641*
|
833
|
808
|
| 1904 |
|
2,768
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
2,750
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
3,055
|
|
|
| 1920 |
353
|
2,585
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
1,845
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
1,695
|
|
|
| 1926** |
348
|
1,928
|
889
|
1,039
|
| 1931 |
|
2,162
|
|
|
*Of whom 1,631 were German.
**Of whom 1,919 were German (344 households: 883 male & 1,036 female).
Catholic
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): 349.
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): 59.
Mink, A.N. Historical and Geographical Dictionary of the Saratov Province [in Russian] (Saratov, Russia, 1898): 838-841.
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): 623.
Pleve, Igor. Einwanderung in das Wolgagebiet, 1764-1767 Band 1 (Göttingen: Göttinger Arbeitskreis, 1999): 441-455.
Preliminary Results of the Soviet Census of 1926 on the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (Pokrovsk, 1927): 28-83.
"Settlements in the 1897 Census." Journal of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia (Winter, 1990): 19.
Franzosen (wolgadeutsche.net) - in Russian