Chutor Alexandrowka
Type of Settlement: Chutor
Founded: before 1860
Religion: unknown
Wolost: Glückstal
District: Tiraspol
Province: Cherson
Other Names and Spellings:
Also: Suworowo
History of the Chutor
Chutor Alexandrowka appeared on maps by name as early as 1860. It was situated less than one mile east of Novo Alexandrovka. The chutor did not appear on maps after 1918.
The Odessa Kalendar [OdKal] listed the chutor in the Glückstal Wolost, and presumably also listed the name Suworowo. That name Suworowo has not been found on period maps in this location.
This place name does not appear on the Stumpp map [StumppMOd], in Mertens' German-Russian Handbook [Mertens], nor does it appear in the the GCRA Points-of-Origin [Glückstal-2021]. Aside from its listing in the Odessa Kalendar [OdKal] as being in the Glückstal Wolost in the years 1897-1898 and 1900-1903, there is no other evidence of Germans having lived in this chutor and no surnames associated with it. Perhaps it was only in these brief years when Glückstalers farmed this chutor. The decreasing amount of land did not bode well for it. Perhaps more evidence will be found in time to add to the story.
Population
Year Pop.
1897 44
1898 42
1900 25
1901 46
1902 47
1903 23
Agriculture
1897 — 630 dessiatins of land
1901 — 500 dessiatins of land
1903 — 276 dessiatins of land
Images
Bibliography
[Arcanum-1872] – “Russia (1872).” Arcanum Adatbázis Kft. maps.arcanum.com/en/map/russia-1872. 1872. [This map, although not identified on the website, is probably the work of Theodor Friedrich Schubert (1789-1865) a.k.a. Fedor Fedorovich Shubert. The 1860 and 1872 versions of this map appear on other map websites identified only as by "Schubert."]
[Glückstal-2004] – Rudolf, Homer ed. The Glückstalers in New Russia and North America: A Bicentennial Collection of History, Genealogy and Folklore. Pierre, SD: State Pub. & Printing, 2004.
[OdKal] – Neuer Haus- und Landwirthschaftskalender für deutsche Aussiedler in südlicher Russland auf das Jahr ... [New house and farming calendar for German emigrants in Southern Russia for the year ...] Odessa: Druck und Verlag von L. Nitzsche, [published 1863-1915]. Digitized versions of 1906, 1909, 1910 and 1913.
[Retromap-1918-1419182] – 1918 Austrian Map of Central Russia [Composite map compiled from sheets of Austrian operational military maps from 1912-1918.] Kaiserlich-Königliches Militär-Geographisches Institut. Digital repository: retromap.ru/1419182
[StumppMOd] – Stumpp, Karl. "Karte der deutschen Siedlungen im Gebiet (oblast) Odessa (ehm. westl. Teil des Gouv. Cherson)" (Map of German settlements in the Odessa region/oblast, former western part of Kherson governorate). Karl Stumpp, AHSGR, and Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland, 1955.
Page last updated 14 March 2022