• Molotschna Colony or Molochna Colony was a Russian Mennonite settlement in what is now Zaporizhzhia Oblast in Ukraine. Today, the central village, known...
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  • Werder at that time is very similar to the dialect of Molotschna. The distinctive features of Molotschna-Plautdietsch as opposed to Chortitza-Plautdietsch...
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    second larger colony, Molotschna, was founded in 1804. Mennonites lived alongside Nogais—semi-nomadic pastoralists—in the Molotschna region of southern Ukraine...
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  • influenced by pietistic leaders transplanted those ideas to the large Molotschna colony. The pastor of a neighboring congregation, Eduard Wüst, reinforced...
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    Catholics, Lutherans, and Mennonites were all known as farmers (see Molotschna for Mennonite settlements in the Melitopol area); the Empress Catherine...
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    Molochna (redirect from Molotschna River)
    culture, once based in the southeastern region of Ukraine since 1804 as Molotschna colony which was part of the Russian Empire at that time. In antiquity...
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  • now Ukraine. These two dialects are split between Chortitza Colony and Molotschna. Today, many younger Russian Mennonites in Canada and the United States...
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  • November 14, 2017. Klassen, Abraham; Krahn, Cornelius (1956). "Halbstadt (Molotschna Mennonite settlement, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine)". Global Anabaptist...
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  • restaurant manager. Born to Russian Mennonite parents in Friedensdorf, Molotschna, Russian Empire (now Khmelnytske [uk], Ukraine), Reimer studied to be...
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  • prison sentence. Women Talking takes place in a Mennonite Colony called Molotschna in the aftermath of similarly traumatic events. Eight men believed to...
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  • April. His ultimate fate is unknown. c. September 1920 Clayton Kratz 23 Molotschna, Ukraine The Mennonite relief worker from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania...
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  • disappearance from the village of Halbstadt in the German Mennonite settlement of Molotschna during the Russian Civil War. Kratz was sent by the then-newly established...
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  • west of the Vistula River had a front variant which is closer to the Molotschna-Plautdietsch form. s, z and comparable sounds were quite special near...
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  • contact with Mennonites was the period 1802–1841 when they lived in the Molotschna, where Johann Cornies (q.v.) rendered them considerable assistance. Leo...
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    southern Russia between 1789 and the early 1800s, settling the Chortitza and Molotschna Mennonite colonies. During the years in Russia they became an ethnoreligious...
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  • Personal Born Bernhardt Klassen (1918-02-20)February 20, 1918 Rudnerweide (Molotschna), Ukrainian People's Republic (present-day Ukraine) Died August 6, 1993(1993-08-06)...
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  • discipline, prayer and Bible study, met in the village of Elisabeththal, Molotschna and formed the Mennonite Brethren Church. Mennonite Brethren were among...
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    petitioned to move to better lands. In 1842 they were allowed to relocate to Molotschna, a Mennonite colony, where they founded the village Hutterthal. When they...
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  • Grigorjewka, Petrowka, Wassiljewka and Jelenowka, mixed Chortzitza and Molotschna background), Zentral (with the village of Zentral) and Sadowaja (with...
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  • Plautdietsch-speaking families of Mennonites of Dutch descent, who came from the Molotschna colony in the Russian Empire, whose descendants continue to have a significant...
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  • Mennonites dissatisfied with the state of the existing church in the Molotschna colony settlement of then south Russia (present-day Ukraine). Their first...
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  • immigration to south Russia, settling in the newly opened Mennonite colony, Molotschna, in the spring of 1805. Here, Reimer was frequently in conflict with the...
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    Church migrated in 1820-21 under the leadership of Peter Wedel to the Molotschna Mennonite colony in South Russia. In Russia they would be granted exemption...
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    The German-speaking Mennonites had come from the Volga region and the Molotschna colony under the leadership of Claas Epp Jr. The Mennonites played an...
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  • Poland to Ukraine, where they established the colonies of Chortitza and Molotschna, under the protection of the Russian Empire. In 1868, the Chortitza Colony...
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    German Mennonites in 1805 under the name Petershagen within the region of Molotschna. In 1945, it was renamed to Kutuzivka. Its church, built in 1892, was...
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    Templers also spread to the German Mennonites from the Russian settlement of Molotschna where Johann Lange, former student from Württemberg, formed the Tempelhof...
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    they over-wintered in Chortitza Colony before moving on to form the Molotschna settlement. The money spent by the new group during their stay in turn...
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    Mennonite men were included in this program and members were drawn from the Molotschna and Chortitza Mennonite colonies with training and armaments provided...
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  • settlers who founded these villages on the Kulunda Steppes originated from Molotschna, Chortitza and their daughter colonies. The number of settlers was around...
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