On the Preservation of Cultural and Ethnic Identity of “Russian Germans”

German settlements in Russia have been known since the ancient times, however larger settlements appeared only after the “Мanifesto” issued by Empress Catherine II. Settling in Volga Region, Novorossiya, Crimea, the Caucasus, and Siberia, German colonists preserved German language, customs, traditio...

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Main Author: Tatiana V. Govenko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2016-09-01
Series:Studia Litterarum
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Online Access:http://old.studlit.ru/articles/Govenko.pdf