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This cemetery was adjacent to the German settlement of Kirej-Tabor, Crimea, South Russia which is now Makarivka, Crimea, Ukraine which was established in about 1850.
Tombstones in German settlement cemeteries were stripped of all valuables and generally neglected by the local residents that remained there after 1940 since Germans were no longer welcome there.
The colony of Kirej-Tabor, Crimea, was the birthplace of a number of pioneer families of Stark County. Several Kubischta and Huschka families, the Dolecheck, Roller, Praus, Plezl, Nadvornick families and others came from there at the end of the last and the beginning of the present century. After...
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This cemetery was adjacent to the German settlement of Kirej-Tabor, Crimea, South Russia which is now Makarivka, Crimea, Ukraine which was established in about 1850.
Tombstones in German settlement cemeteries were stripped of all valuables and generally neglected by the local residents that remained there after 1940 since Germans were no longer welcome there.
The colony of Kirej-Tabor, Crimea, was the birthplace of a number of pioneer families of Stark County. Several Kubischta and Huschka families, the Dolecheck, Roller, Praus, Plezl, Nadvornick families and others came from there at the end of the last and the beginning of the present century. After the Crimean War in 1854-1856 between Russia on one hand, and Turkey with her allies, France, England, and Sardinia, on the other, Czar Alexander II invited several thousand families from Czechoslovakia and Moravia to come to Crimea and settle a large district on its northwestern shore of Sebastopol. In 1862-1863, a large number of Bohemians of Czechoslovakia and Moravia, who were at that time under the Austrian Empire emigrated to Russia and settled the fertile steppes of Crimea. In due time, the entire district was dotted with larger and smaller colonies. The better known of these were Grigorjeffka, Alexandroffka, Bohemia, Kirej-Tabor, Michailoffka, Miroffka, Komrad, Karamin, and others. Crimea was incorporated with Russia in 1783, after it had been a part of Turkey since 1475. Before that it was under the Mongols, the Khazars, the Byzantines, the Romans, the Greeks, and the Scythians. The chief industry of Crimea is agriculture and horticulture, although cattle and sheep raising, beekeeping, manufacturing, shipping, and fishing have become very important industries. The bulk of the inhabitants were for along time Tartars, but in the last century the Russians became predominant. However there are other elements of the population as Greeks, Armenians, Germans, Bohemians, Jews, and Albanians, who all took apart in making Crimea one of the most beautiful spots in all Russia. |
