Rusluie

The Rusluie were a community of Dutch origin living in St. Petersburg, Russia. They originally came from the city of Vriezenveen.[1]

One of the most famous members of the community was Vasily Berkov, a shipbuilder and translator of European literature on shipbuilding into Russian.

Notes

  1. (in Dutch) Jelena S. Van Wijngaarden-Xiounina, From assimilation to segregation: The Dutch Colony in Saint-Petersburg, 1856-1917 (Van assimilatie tot segregatie: De Nederlandse kolonie in Sint-Petersburg, 1856-1917 (Groningen 2007)). ISBN 978-90-77089-06-4
gollark: What wasn't?
gollark: Also, market ones are stupidly overpriced.
gollark: ^
gollark: I'd check but I bred all mine in the massbreed.
gollark: Wait, what about lineaged magma x xenowyrm?
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