concept
German Farmsteads
German farmsteads
also: немецкие хутора
Isolated farm settlements of ethnic-German colonist communities scattered through the Russian and Ukrainian countryside since the 18th-19th century state-sponsored colonization drives, a familiar local landmark used to orient travelers and neighbors.
Reading notes
- An Unkind Night §6 немецких хуторах
"German farmsteads" (немецкие хутора) refers to the isolated farm settlements of ethnic-German colonist communities scattered through the Russian and Ukrainian countryside since the 18th-19th century state-sponsored colonization drives -- a familiar, named landmark used here simply to help the servants triangulate the fire's location relative to Kreshchenskoye.