| bilingual < [53=] Russkiy ¶ migration, mainly from West Central Germany, to the Volga in 1764-67, at the initiative of Catherine the Great, with many descendants migrating again to Argentina and Brazil (and elsewhere in the Americas) from 1880. Speakers remaining on the Volga occupied the former Republic of the Russian Germans (Republik der Wolgadeutschen) until the Second World War, being largely dispersed in and after 1945 |