achievement & discovery

Sale at auction Switzerland

A luck would have it I came across this auction sale in Switzerland. [pdf-embedder url=“https://von-hoyer-boot.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/AMETHYST-GOLD-EMAIL-DIAMANT-BROSCHE-um-1900.-Gelbgold_.pdf“ title=“AMETHYST-GOLD-EMAIL-DIAMANT-BROSCHE, um 1900. Gelbgold_“]   Source: Koller Internationale Auktionen, Zurich and Geneva, Auction  on  2. 12. 2008, 14:00

School in Bulgaria

Interesting facts can be found in the following source: „White emigrant in Bulgaria. Memories“ under  redaction of V.V. Chumachenko, P.V. Chumachenko, S.A. Rozhkova, published by the russian academic union in Bulgaria. The PDF-file has nearly 800 pages covering the russian emigration to Bulgaria including some biographical data. In my case I had a look on…

EPJ Hoyer birth record 1850

Birth entry for Eduard Peter Johann Hoyer in the church book of Pawlowsk (near Tzarskoe Zelo, St. Petersburg) 1850 Found by chance on familysearch.org, and with this I can add a new generation (one more than on the „bulgarian document“) Furthermore the details of the entry are interesting as there are TWO entries for baptism…

EPJ Hoyer death 1888

Source: Erik Amburger database „Ausländer im vorrevolutionären Russland“  (foreigners in pre-revolution Russia) Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung, Regensburg.  (Institute for East and Southeast European Studies). Here we will find a hint for the date of death for Eduard Peter Johann Hoyer (1888) and in addition to that the age at time of death (38 year),…

Marie Therese Beyl Birth 1852

Marie Therese Beyl Birth1852 St. Petersburg, St. Michaelis Church Source: „Россия, дубликаты Лютеранских метрических книг, 1833-1885,“ database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VT9B-QXS : 7 August 2017), Marie Therese Beyl, 04 May 1852, Baptism; citing p. 283, volume 828-14/73, St. Petersburg (St. Michaelis Church), St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia, Russland Historischen Staatsarchiv, St. Petersburg (Russian State Historical Archive,…