Journey to Hussenbach: Answering Freedom's Call

While waiting in a local flour mill in the town of Lauterbach in the German principality of Hesse Darmstadt in 1765, Martin Suppes sees a written manifesto from Catherine the Great of Russia offering land and freedom from service to citizens of Darmstadt by moving to Russia. Martin decides to go with his eldest son, twenty-year-old Conrad, to meet with Catherine's representative about Conrad taking up the offer, only to hear that Her Majesty prefers to sponsor established families for popul...