Interesting, my mom's parents were both from Russia / Ukraine, but also German families - communities. I heard the same story about the German famers invited to Russia by Katherine the Great, German Royal who married into the Russian Tsardome.
As it turns out, the whole settlement had to flee the Bolshivic Revolution. My Grandma(about 10) left with her family and some how ended up in Saskatchewan. A while later my Grampa (15) and his brothers left. Two brothers remained and were killed. The other three or four went to Bavaria. Eventually two of them made it to Saskatchewan to reunite with the rest of the family.
Grandma and Grampa finally ended up in Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver. I'm not sure how or why they left the rest of them in Saskatchewan.
Anyway, not famous but they really must have lived through interesting times... Grant
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