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Russians in Wisconsin. In 1920, Russian immigrants constituted about 5 percent of the foreign population in Wisconsin. By 1950, nine to ten thousand Russian immigrants had settled in Wisconsin.
13 mar 2019 · The Wisconsin-Russia Connection: More Than Just Cold Winters. Posted on March 13, 2019. For all the things Wisconsin is known for, “eyewitness accounts of Russian history” may not top the list. But as it turns out, the Library and Archives division of the Wisconsin Historical Society (WHS) maintains a unique collection of documents written ...
Ilya Repin, Barge Haulers on the Volga, 1870–1873 Ivan Shishkin and Konstantin Savitsky, Morning in a Pine Forest, 1878. Peredvizhniki (Russian: Передви́жники, IPA: [pʲɪrʲɪˈdvʲiʐnʲɪkʲɪ]), often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restrictions; it evolved ...
Milwaukee’s Russian Jews left their homes due to a long history of discrimination. In 1794, an edict from Catherine the Great confined Russian Jews to the Pale of Settlement, an area of western Russia, where the May Laws of 1882 barred Jews from settling outside of towns and from conducting business on Sundays or religious holidays.
The Finns were the last Scandinavian group to settle in Wisconsin, but they left their homeland for similar reasons: changes in agriculture produced a large, poor, landless class of peasants, and as part of the Russian Empire, they also faced political discrimination and compulsory military service. Finns began settling in the cutover region of ...
Eastern European Immigration to Wisconsin. Between the 1880s to the 1920s, a new wave of immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe began to arrive in Wisconsin. The Eastern European immigrants included Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Russians, Hungarians, and Bulgarians.
Russian Jews began arriving in Chicago in larger numbers during the 1880s to escape the persecution that had recently begun intensifying at home. By 1930, they constituted 80 percent of Chicago's Jewish population.
