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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