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

Christianity 176 Christmas 105, 106, 134, 171, 189 Church bells 88, 101, 110 Civil authority 37 Civil disobedience 192 Claassen, Peter 177, 178, 179 Clannishness 37 Climate typhus 108 Clock striker 88 “Closed community” 46 Colonial privileges 36, 45 Collective farm 191 Common distillery 38 Common ownership 38 Common pasture 38, 40 Communion 100, 180 Conservative 96, 108 Cossacks 92, 110, 167, 176 Cotton goods 66 Counterrevolutionaries 191 Cow 140, 143 “Crazy venture’ 130 Crimea 48, 78 Crimean War 109 Crown courts 71 Crown forests 48 Culm Military Academy 34 Cultivate 149 Czar Alexander 188 Czar Alexander 1 53, 149 Czar Alexander II 43, 48, 72, 75, 77, 78, 82, 109, 167 Czar Alexander III 109 Czarina’s Decree of 1763 44 Czar Peter the Great 68 D Dakotas 188 Dalke, Peter 145 Daniel, Book of, 58, 62, 100, 136 Danzig Church 32 Danzig, Prussia 30, 32, 36, 37, 56 Datton, Pastor 78 Dawes, James W. 184 Death 38, 89, 90, 102, 107-110, 113, 116, 120, 129, 133-135, 137, 142, 155, 156, 161 244 The Great Trek of the Russian Mennonites Decree of April 8, 1875 75 Dehydration 89 Deknatel edition 54 Denmark 63 Department of Public Instruction 44 Der Christlicher Bundesbote 178 Der Grauen Mann 53 Dessiatines 40, 119, 139 Devil 168 Diarrhea 89 Die Entsiegelte Weissagung 62 Die Frohe Botschaft 91 Die Rundschau 108, 142 Dick, Marie 188 Dirks, Abraham 186 Dirks, Benjamin 124, 186 Dirks, Family 184 Dirks, Frederick Aron 184, 186 Dirks, Tobias 186 Disease 38, 107 Dishak, Turkestan 116 Disappointed 99, 173 Dissatisfaction 38, 58, 111, 124 Dissention 111, 128, 139, 144, 168 District surgeon 107 Disunity 38 Donkeys 140 Don River 98 Doopsgezinden 26 Draft 147 Drake, Johann 152, 153, 161, 166 Dragon 171 Dreech, General 148, 153 Duecken, Leonard 108 Dutch cattle 40 Dutch Mennonites 30-32, 50, 55 Dyck, P. 173 E Ebenezer, Bukhara 120, 122, 124, 151, 154 Eck Family 188 Eidkuhnen 188 Elbing, Prussia 32 Elect’ 126 Elector of Cologne 30 Elector of Palatinate 32 Elijah 173, 175 Ellis Island, 186 Elkhart, Indiana 179 Elton Sea 40 Emigration 62, 83, 84, 120 Ems 184 England 30 English Channel 184 English Bible Society 146 Ensz, Family 186 Epidemic of 1881 108 Epidemic, smallpox 124, 142-143 Epp, Claas, Sr. 56, 58, 76-77 Epp; Claas, Jr. 50, 56, 58-62, 75-81, 81- 82, 83-87, 91, 99, 100, 111-115, 124- 130, 134-199, 144, 148-153, 158-162, 168-170, 171-176, 188, 190, 191 Epp, Elizabeth 59, 190 Epp, Family 34, 60 Epp, Johann 76, 78 Epp, Maria 59, 188 Esau, Cornelius 108 Esau Family 188 Esau, Gerhard 118 Eschatology 51, 144 “Es erglanzt uns von Ferne Ein Land’ 92 Eugenius 54, 62 Europe 35, 62, 68 Evangelism 96, 175 Excommunication 175 Extraterritoriality 71 F “False prophet’’ 130 Fanatic admixture 58 Fantasy 168 Farming 38-40, 46-48, 163, 164, 170 Fast, Ane