One important form of publicity used by recruiting agents in Europe was the broadsheet, a printed or manuscript handbill. Among the papers of the Chancellery of Guardianship relating to the cancellation of Beauregard's contract is a Russian translation of such a broadsheet, used by Beauregard and his agents, and dated 1765.

TsGADA f. 248, kn. 3762, II. 491–40b (Author's translation from Russian.)

An Announcement Concerning the Benefits and Advantages of the Colony Katharinenlehn, which is being established on the patterns of the Swiss cantons

This colony is situated between 50 and 52 degrees of latitude from the Equator, opposite Saratov on the river Volga. The climate, as far as concerns the mildness of the air, is similar to that of Lyons in France, for the cold continues for scarcely three months. The soil, which is blackish in quality, is extraordinarily fertile, and without manuring, in return for little labour, gives fifteen and sixteen times the amount sown; and there are incontestable proofs that new settlers who arrived there in the spring of last year received peas one hundred fold over their sowing, although that sowing was done hastily and later than usual.

There are the most magnificent meadows there, also a great quantity of stock. The cows are similar to the Dutch breed both in quality and size, and the horses are so swift that they can travel from twelve to fifteen German miles in a day, and they cost no more than five or six roubles.