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As for your stories - it is completely untenable because there were no "pre-revolutionary waves of Germans who settled in our country" ...
January 1, 1874 in Russia by force of law abolishing the colonists benefits to correctional military povinnosti.Immigratsiya Germans to Russia stops. Moreover, a large number of Russian-Germans began to emigrate from Russia, not in Germany, but mainly in the U.S.. Just before 1914 in the United States from Russia moved up to 200 thousand ethnic Germans. They were one of the largest streams of pre-revolutionary Russian emigration - along with the Jews, Poles, Lithuanians, and Finns.

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about your stories - it is completely untenable because there were no "pre-revolutionary waves of Germans who settled in our" ...

This is not a legend, but true story. Image gave a German neighbor in Magadan. Told how coming to Russia before the revolution, settled and lived in the Volga region, and with the beginning of the war the entire German village immersed in freight train and sent to Kolyma.
What do you all find fault with the word "wave"? Let's close this topic.
Thanks again for the advice on the picture.