The GERMANS from Russia: Children of the Steppe, Children of the Prairie | VHS rip | 1999 скачать в хорошем качестве

The GERMANS from Russia: Children of the Steppe, Children of the Prairie | VHS rip | 1999

The story of the Germans from Russia is of agricultural pioneers on several continents whose quest for land and peace shaped them into a distinctive and enduring ethnic group. Large scale immigration of German speaking settlers into Russia begins in 1762 with the ascension of Catherine the Great to the Russian throne. The Czarina's manifesto offered western Europeans willing to farm in Russia free land, local self government and freedom from military service. In 1764 the first great wave of German speaking agricultural settlers journeyed to the lower course of the Volga River in Russia. The second great wave began in 1781 into New Russia, an area stretching along the margins of the Black Sea from the Cacaucus Mountains to Crimea and across Ukraine. By 1897, the population of these German settlers numbered over 1.7 million. In the late 19th century Catherine's manifesto was rescinded. Between 1872 and 1914, 300,000 Germans from Russia obtained passports and severed ties to their villages in Russia. The odyssey to America had begun. Although they settled in almost every area of North America most Germans from Russia preferred the open spaces of the Great Plains. And it was here that Germans from Russia in America maintained their language and culture the longest. FAIR USE NOTICE: This Video may contain copyrighted (©) material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. Such material is made available to advance understanding of ecological, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, moral, ethical, and social justice issues, etc. It is believed that this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior general interest in receiving similar information for research and educational purposes.