A Mennonite Family in Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, 1789-1923
In this vivid and engaging study, David Rempel combines his first-hand account of life in Russian Mennonite settlements during the landmark period of 1900-1920, with a rich portrait of six generations of his ancestral family from the foundation of the first colony - the Khortitsa Settlement - in 1789 to the country''s cataclysmic civil war.
Born in 1899 in the Mennonite village of Nieder Khortitsa ...
In this vivid and engaging study, David Rempel combines his first-hand account of life in Russian Mennonite settlements during the landmark period of 1900-1920, with a rich portrait of six generations of his ancestral family from the foundation of the first colony - the Khortitsa Settlement - in 1789 to the country''s cataclysmic civil war.
Born in 1899 in the Mennonite village of Nieder Khortitsa ...
