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Dear Mr. Editor!
While searching for some documents concerning local
people without land, I found a document in the archives of
the village administration that, although it has nothing to
do with the aforesaid Issue, deserves to be brought to the
public as it shows the war-loving General Kardinalowskij and
like-minded persons that learning the Russian language has
already been a need to us Germans here in the South for more
than 40 years. Such beginnings in the learning of the
Russian language can certainly be found in most of the
German colonies.
I am sending you, Mr. Editor, a word-for-word copy of this
document together with a request to print it in your paper.
I am just adding that this agreement was personally written
down by the “teacher” Luzenko, a Russian.
Yours faithfully
G. G. Klein.
Kleinliebental, February 7, 1911
Agreement
Eighteen hundred sixty-seven, the 30th November, the
undersigned, Jacob Luzenko, citizen of the city of Odessa,
has reached the following agreement with the municipality of
Kleinliebental, in the precense of the village council:
First: I, Jakob Luzenko, voluntarily hold the position of teacher of the
Russian language to teach the children at the Kleinliebental
School correct reading and writing, namely in such a manner
that the community is fully satisfied with me.
Second: My three-month long post as teacher for the Russsian language
starts on December 1st of this year, 1867, and ends on March
1st of the following year, 1868; during this period of time
I will be obligated to teach the children properly every day
in the morning from 7 to 11 o'clock and in the afternoon
from 1 to 4 o'clock, except on Sundays and holidays.
Third: As the community of the colony Kleinliebental knows only too well,
Jakob Lunzenko is not involved in any offences at all,
displays good behavior, and has good morals, so he is
designated a teacher of the Russian language according to
the above-mentioned points 1 and 2 of the agreement in hand
with the community.
Fourth: For the three-month duration of duty of the teacher for the
Russian language, Jakob Lunzenko has the right to receive an
agreed salary in the amount of 65 rubles from the community;
the community is obliged to pay him, Mr. Luzenko, the
promised salary at the end of the period of time in full
measure, without any deductions.
This is confirmed by the following signatures. |
