To those who didn’t know them, they were called the “Dirty Russians.” But the Volga-Deutsch, who were misunderstood by those unlike them were actually ethnic Germans who had immigrated here from ...

From 1764 to 1767, 23,000 Germans emigrated to a small area of Russia along the Volga River at the behest of Russia’s German-born princess, Catherine the Great. A total of 104 colonies were founded ...

“We’re not Russians! Never let anyone label us that way. Just because a chicken lays an egg in an oven, that doesn’t make the egg a biscuit.” I remember hearing those words as a child. My mother went ...

From 1764 to 1772, there were 106 German colonies established along the Volga River on the barren Russian steppe. By 1910, there were many Volga German immigrants living in south-central Idaho, ...

in Northeast Portland on Wednesday, Sept. 28. The program is titled "From the Russian Steppe to the Pacific Northwest: The Germans from Russia in Portland, Oregon." The video and slideshow is from 7 ...

This week in Chef Chat, we take a bit of a detour to explore the culinary and cultural traditions of Volga Germans with Rebecca Nab Young, the Phoenix-based author of a new cookbook, There is Always ...

This is the third of a three-part series on local Volga German history. Much of the information in all three columns comes from work and research done by Emma Hermann Thieme and Frederick Zitzer, ...

HAYS, Kan. (KSNW) — A group of descendants of an ethnic group that settled across Kansas in its early years as a state is making preparations to celebrate the 150th anniversary of their first arrival.

Until he started at Grant High School, Jerry Schleining thought everyone grew up with cousins, uncles, aunts and both sets of grandparents within four blocks of home. Steve Schreiber, who grew up near ...

Join the town of Windsor from 4-8 p.m. Saturday at the Community Recreation Center, 250 N. 11th St., to help celebrate the traditions of Volga Germans, who settled in Windsor in the early 20th century ...