Hello List, Ran across an interesting article from Volgograd area http://www.volgograd-trv.ru/news.aspx?id=12370. This area has many archeological sites dealing with Mongols that have been plundered by novice archeologists and the local authorities have started to local authorities have begun arresting these individuals. Recently, a collection of the GR newspaper "Rot Front" mailed to Germany had been intercepted and declared part of the Russian cultural heritage and therefore illegal to move out of the country. This collection now resides in a local museum. Bill Doos

Does anyone have or know where to locate a list of Germans and others from Europe who came to Russia in 1772? The evidence points more and more to this group as the one that included the first Pickelhaupt to enter Russia. Transport Lists, Kuhlberg Lists and a reconstructed First Settlers List do not include them.   Bill Pickelhaupt