These are unique documents !!!Find here a scanned petition of
Romanovka colony colonists to
Novorussia nad Bessarabia General Gubernator Vorontsov for
help in 1843 due to the bad harvest.
There is no information in these documents as to where Romanovka
colonists were from.
This document from April 1843 contains list of all colonists family
head of Households with signatures.
The first census for colonies was in 1858, 15 years after these
letters were written and many
colonists had died by this time so many of them will not be listed
in 1858 census.
You can see also original signatures of Romanovka colonists.
Pavel Bernshtam
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