Catherine the Great and Alexander I

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#999933" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="040006e0ddwnfv.png"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Raile Family</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Raile Family"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id125.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="15001800 Railes"><U>1500-1800 Raile's</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id60.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Plochingen, Germany"><U>Plochingen, Germany</U></A>   |   <B>Catherine the Great and Alexander I</B>   |   <A HREF="id123.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Danube River Trip"><U>Danube River Trip</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id119.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hoffnungstal, Russia"><U>Hoffnungstal, Russia</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id124.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Raile Orphans"><U>The Raile Orphans</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id62.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Neudorf, Russia"><U>Neudorf, Russia</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id142.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Bolsheviks"><U>Bolsheviks</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id115.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="St. Francis, Kansas Yesterday"><U>St. Francis, Kansas - Yesterday</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id24.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Maps"><U>Maps</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id57.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Other GermanRussian Families"><U>Other German-Russian Families</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id139.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Scythians"><U>The Scythians</U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=190 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" background="041bec00esnpes.png"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2318ebd0.png" border=0 width="142" height="189" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> In 1738 the German painter George Groot painted Russian Empress Catherine the Great when she was Grand Duchess.  The original painting hangs in the Hermitage Museum.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FAMILY HISTORY"><U>Back to Raile Family History</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> Catherine the Great and Alexander I</div> <div> <I>     How did these two Russian leaders change the Raile family?</I></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="22ac8e60.png" border=0 width="200" height="230" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">     <IMG SRC="323d8e20.png" border=0 width="216" height="226" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Catherine the Great issued a <A HREF="id104.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Manifesto"><U>manifesto</U></A> in 1763 inviting foreigners, particularly Germans, to settle in Russia on territory won from the Turks.  This immense territory near the Volga River and the Black Sea was fertile grassland.  The first wave of immigrants settled in the Volga area.</div> <bR> <div> The <B>Raile family</B> was one of many German families that responded to the second manifesto issued by Catherine the Great's grandson, Alexander I in 1804.  All of the rights and privileges of the first manifesto remained, but this time Alexander required that "only capable agriculturists and artisans" would be admitted and each family had to possess cash or goods worth at least 300 guilders.  The German colonists settled near the Black Sea.</div> <bR> <div> In 1817, Barbara Katharina Lutz <B>Raile</B> and six of her children left Plochingen, Germany and boarded an ulmer schachtel on the Danube Rver at Ulm, Germany.  They traveled in the Oetlingen harmony led by her brother Johann Jacob Lutz (1769-1817).</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="324fa900.png" border=0 width="250" height="144" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Ulmer schachtel</B></div> <div> Large flat bottomed barge normally used to haul freight</div> <bR> <div> Approximately 300 mother colonies were eventually founded throughout Russia during the settlement years and as the population grew, more acreage had to be acquired for the landless. Thus, numerous daughter colonies were founded. Eventually there were more than 3,000 German settlements in Russia. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id123.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Danube River Trip"><U><B>To learn about the trip down the Danube River, click here.</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FAMILY HISTORY"><U><IMG SRC="21728280.png" border=0 width="40" height="40" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="FAMILY HISTORY"><U>Back to Family History</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>