The Great Trek of the Russian Mennonites to Central Asia, 1880-1884, Fred Richard Belk, 1976

nialism 51, 52 Am Trakt 36 Amu Darya River 63, 149-150, 154, 156 158, 161, 167, 168, 192 Amur Valley 48 Anabaptist 21, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29 Ancient Civilization 103 Antichrist 22, 52, 55, 83, 85, 115, 173, 176 Antiliberal 110 Antimilitaristic 50, 192 Aral Sea 63, 64, 89, 94, 156, 178, 182 Arbas 112 Aries River 94 Armenians 1]) Arnold, Gottfried 54 Asia 62, 68, 87, 139 Astrachan, Russia 188 Assembly Hall 162 Atlantic Ocean 184 Attics 141 Auction 99 August 7, 1883, 162 Aulie Ata, Turkestan, 80, 106, 111, 112, 113, 184, 185-137, 139, 141, 142, 144- 145, 146-147, 160, 174, 175, 179, 188, 189, 190, 192, 195 ’ Australia 49 Austria 28 Au-uls 88 B Bactria-Sogdiana, Kingdom of 65 Baergen, Johann 108 Balkhash, Lake 63 Baltic Sea 32 Bandits 164, 167, 176 Baptism 28, 42, 144, 145, 162, 168, 175 Baptists 83, 168, 198 Baku, Russia 189 Bartsch, Franz 84, 87, 104, 134, 146 Bartsch, Hermann 134, 152, 186 Bartsch, Johann 146 Bavaria, Germany 28 Beatrice, Nebraska 177, 178, 179, 186, 189, 193 Becker, Jacob 188-189 Becker, John 188-189 Becker, Susanna 188 Becker, Lena 188 Bek 66, 90, 117, 120-122, 154 Belgian horses 40 Believers’ 37, 171 Bergmann, Johann 179 Berlin, Germany 40, 52 Bessie, Oklahoma 193 Berdiansk, Prussia 45 Bern, Switzerland 25 Bier, Philipp 186 Bible 58, 60, 100, 124, 129, 132, 136, 144, 146, 161, 164, 171, 174, 190, 191 Black Sea Region 48 Blasphemy 175 Blaurock, Georg 25 Index Blood feuds 163 Blumstein 108 Board of Guardians 178 Bovwens, Leenaert 53 Boycott 32 Box wagons 86 Brainard, Kansas 189 Braunen, Vallentine 108 Braunfels, Prussia 32 Bremen, Germany 178, 184, 186, 188-189 “Bride Community’ 82, 84, 86, 129, 148, 171, 174 “Bridegroom” 129 Brigandry 165 Briiderschaft 42 Bukhara, Bukhara 54, 66, 72, 113, 126 Bukhara, Khanate of 44, 66, 68, 70, 112, 113, 114, 115, 117, 124, 188, 134, 138, 148, 150, 153, 154, 186, 194, 195 Bukhara natives 94, 108, 111 Bukhara officials 149, 150 Bull, 140 Buller, Fran 76 Bunyan 54 Byzantine Orthodoxy 68 C California 63 Calvin, John 26 Camels 87, 88-94, 133, 140, 142, 154-157 Canada 46, 193 Canals 141 Cancer 190 Caravans 66, 83, 88, 91, 98, 101, 116, 153, 156 Caspian Sea 63,64, 163, 186, 189 Castlegarden, New York 186 Cathari 24 Catherine the Great 35 Catherine's Proclamation 35 Caucasus 77, 82, 128 Censorship 43 Census of 1897 44 Chernajav, Gov. Gen. 160 Central Asia 54, 55, 62-63, 65-66, 68 70-71, 84, 177, 178, 179, 182, 189, 190, 193, 194, 195 Cherein Chatun 117 Chegan River 182 Chiliasm 50, 137 Chiliastic 50, 53, 55, 58, 59 Chimkent, Turkestan, 89, 95, 102, 103 China 63 243 Chinese, Tashkent 106. 110 Chirtshik River 105 Chortitza Colony 21, 36, 38, 30, 109 Chortitza River 36 Christ 42, 50, 51, 52, 60, 62, 82-83, 84- 115, 124, 128, 129-130, 136, 148, 150, 172, 173, 175-176, 191