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Index
Copyright and Front Page Matter
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Preface
Cast of Characters
Chronology
MAP: Settlements along the Volga
Prologue - The Volga Germans
The Earliest Settlers
Beginning the Journey
Sea Voyage
Saratov – Bulwark against the Golden Horde
Steppe, Cold and Hunger
Taming Wild Nature
Exploring the New Land
Building a Village
Das Dorf
Birth and Death – Life
Spring Gladdens the Heart
Work – Life’s Necessity
Growing Pains
Problems of the Heart
Russian Horror
Carnage
Dreams, Promise and Reality
Folklore
Hardship and Courage
Yearning For The Homeland
Life Beneath the Frost
No Relief
Ingenuity
Growth, Dreams and Education
War, Taxes and Death
Spring Brings New Hope
Weddings
Nomadic Life
The Miracle
Pugachevskaya’s Scars
A Rebel’s End
The Green Horror
A New Decade
The Bounty of the Steppe
The Kontora
Death of an Empress
Church, Family and Education
Teachers from Hessen
The Bull Man Commeth
A New Generation
Demise of the First Generation
Kustar Work, Sarpinka Weaving
The Journey to Sarepta
The Aging of the Pioneers
The First Chapter of the Volga Story Closes
A Violent End
A Frontier Miracle
The Caretaker
Hard Work Pays Off
History Changes Volga Lives
Nature’s Wrath Returns
Politics as Usual
Reforming Turmoil
The Ascendancy of Prussia
Russia’s German Soldiers
Tales of Army Service
Assimilating a Soldier
Famine and Politics
Victoria
Politics and a Wedding
A Famine Like No Other
Starting Over
A Russian Holiday
Waiting
The Revolution
Russia’s Dissolution
Life Amid the Gathering Storm
Germans Fighting Germans
Rasputin
The German Dead Come Home
Mutiny, Rasputin’s Assassination, Revolution
Complications
Fruits of Communism
Pillage and Killing
Trouble for Everyone
Crazy Reversals of Fortune
The Frantic Scramble for Survival
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