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BACKGROUND GENEALOGY
POINTS OF EMIGRATION FROM THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
(A)
SOME ROUTES OUT OF SOUTH RUSSIA
"About My Family, The Koslowskys, " By Agatha Ratzlaff, Mennonite Historian, Volume VII, Number 1 March, 1981 - http://www.mennonitehistorian.ca/7.1.MHMar81.pdf
(B)
RUSSIA TO GERMANY
LIBAU [Liepāja, Latvia]
The Hapag [Hamburg America Line ] began to reinforce its Libau-Hamburg route in 1907 (alternatively Libau-Lübeck-Hamburg) ... Hamburg shipping line [ http://www.genhist.org/ghs_Libau_eng.htm ]
LAND ROUTE
Major land border crossings Russia to Germany:
Kibarty, Russia / Eydtkuhnen, Germany (now Kybartai, Lithuania / Chernyshevskoye, Russia) – frontier on the Vilna to Konigsburg rail line
Tilsit, Germany (now Sovetsk, Russia)
Prostken, Germany (now Prostki, Poland)
(C)
POINTS OF EMIGRATION FROM THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE1882-1917
Major land border crossings Russia to Austria-Hungary:
Radzivilov, Russia / Brody, Austria – frontier on the Dubno to Lemberg rail line
Podvolochisk – frontier on the Proskurov to Tarnopol rail line
Czernowitz, Austria (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine)
Major land border crossings Russia to Germany:
Kibarty, Russia / Eydtkuhnen, Germany (now Kybartai, Lithuania / Chernyshevskoye, Russia) – frontier on the Vilna to Konigsburg rail line
Tilsit, Germany (now Sovetsk, Russia)
Prostken, Germany (now Prostki, Poland)
Seaports:
Odessa
Riga
Libau (now Liepāja, Latvia)
1924
Lichtfelde; Kharkov; Kieve; Moscow; Red Gate, Estonia; Port of Riga; Southampton, England.
Lichtenau, Molotschna; Libau, Latvia; Kiel Canal; Antwerp, Belgium
Alexanderkrone, Ekaterinoslav; Rezekne (a rail junction) in Latvia; Port of Libau (Liepaja), Latvia; Southampton
1925
Lichtenau (Russian Swetlodolinsk); Alexandrowsk [Alexandrovsk]; Sineljnikowo; Losowaja; Charkow; Orel; Tula; Belgorod; Skuratowo; Kursk railway station in Moscow; departed from the Windawskij railway station (also called Pribaltijskij; Sebez; Letvian border station Zilupy; Riga; to the Riga Harbour by train; Danzig; Kiel; London; Southampton.
(D)
1923 - 1924
"Thru this gate we entered into the land of freedon 1924 Latvia, it was still free there."
Ontario Mennonite History, Volume XII, Number 2, September, 1994, "Russian Mennonite Exodus to Canada, 1924" by J.J . Thiessen and Herbert P. Enns (translator) - http://www.mhso.org/publications/Ontmennohistory12-2.pdf
Station Lichtenau (Molotschna Mennonite Settlement, Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine) To Station Sebesh (Border Station In Libau, Latvia)
The railway officials adhered to the instructions from Moscow. and the train travelled at speeds, as if possessed, without stopping. We had not expected such precise acceptance of instruction by the officials. Arriving in Alexandrowsk [Alexandrovsk] ... Stops were made only at large cities, such as Sinjelnjikowo, Losowaja, Charkow, Kursk, Orjol, etc. ... The Trip via Smoljensk, to the Border ... In Smoljensk I had to telegraph the Riga authorities of the arrival of the train, as well as impending departure for Riga ... ... Crossing the border, from Russia into Latvia, the train had to pass through a door, painted in red, and decorated on top with a star. star. At this gate/door border guards had treated the 1923 emigrants miserably ...