Free Download Johann Cornies, the Mennonites, and Russian Colonialism in Southern Ukraine
by John R. Staples
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1487549164 | 356 Pages | PDF | 7.8 MB
In the late eighteenth century, the Russian Empire opened the grasslands of southern Ukraine to agricultural settlement by new colonists, among them Prussian Mennonites. Mennonite colonization was one aspect of the empire's consolidation and modernization of its multi-ethnic territory. In the colony of Molochnaia, the dominant personality of the early nineteenth century was Johann Cornies (1789-1848), a hard-driving modernizer and intimate of senior Russian officials whose papers provide unique access into events in Ukraine in this era.