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Preuss was founded as a Roman Catholic colony on 12 May 1767 by LeRoy & Pictet.
The colony was abandoned and is today mostly under water due to the creation of the Volga Reservoir in 1961.
|
Year
|
Households
|
Population
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Total
|
Male
|
Female
|
||
| 1767 |
132
|
403
|
210
|
193
|
| 1769 |
122
|
402
|
207
|
195
|
| 1773 |
99
|
382
|
204
|
178
|
| 1788 |
|
359
|
|
|
| 1798 |
|
459
|
|
|
| 1816 |
|
636
|
|
|
| 1834 |
|
1,105
|
|
|
| 1850 |
|
1,787
|
|
|
| 1857 |
|
|
|
|
| 1859 |
|
2,194
|
|
|
| 1889 |
|
2,194
|
|
|
| 1897 |
|
3,293*
|
1,671
|
1,622
|
| 1905 |
|
5,219
|
|
|
| 1910 |
|
5,579
|
|
|
| 1912 |
|
5,735
|
|
|
| 1920 |
767**
|
4,755
|
|
|
| 1922 |
|
2,787
|
|
|
| 1923 |
|
2,612
|
|
|
| 1926*** |
556
|
2,744
|
1,351
|
1,393
|
| 1931 |
|
2,920****
|
|
|
*Of whom 3,286 were German.
**Of which 755 households were German.
***Of whom 2,726 were German (551 households: 1,342 male & 1,384 female).
****Of whom 2,909 were German.
Catholic
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): 352.
Diesendorf, V.F. Die Deutschen Russlands : Siedlungen und Siedlungsgebiete : Lexicon . Moscow, 2006.
The German Settlements in the USSR before 1941 [in Russian] (Moscow, 2002): 117.
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): 609.
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): 16.