Keller was founded on 12 May 1767 as a Roman Catholic colony by LeRoy & Pictet. It was destroyed by the Kirghiz in 1774 and those colonists who survived resettled to other colonies.
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Year
|
Households
|
Population
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||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Total
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Male
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Female
|
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| 1767 |
75
|
223
|
116
|
107
|
| 1769 |
71
|
238
|
119
|
119
|
| 1773 |
62
|
223
|
116
|
107
|
Beratz, Gottieb. The German colonies on the Lower Volga, their origin and early development: a memorial for the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the first German settlers on the Volga, 29 June 1764 . Translated by Adam Giesinger (Lincoln, NE: American Historical Society of Germans from Russia, 1991): 350.
Orlov, Gregorii. Report of Conditions of Settlements on the Volga to Catherine II , 14 February 1769.
Pallas, P.S. Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. Theil 3,2, Reise aus Sibirien zurueck an die Wolga im 1773sten Jahr (St. Petersburg: Kaiserl. Academie der Wissenschaften, 1776): 609.