The strange story of how Russian Cossacks fled civil war to be peanut farmers in Katherine
The strange story of how Russian Cossacks fled civil war to be peanut farmers in Katherine SunSunday 31 Men involved in the 1918–20 Russian Civil War migrated to Katherine in the 1920s. ( Print text only Cancel Of all the local histories of migration to Australia, the story of the Cossacks who became peanut farmers in the Northern Territory town of Katherine is perhaps one of the strangest. In the 1920s, a small group of Russian men from one of the world's coldest climates found their way to the NT and grew peanuts in the formidable tropical heat. Katherine Museum's local historian Simmone ...
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