A.B. Kalaushin’s roster Kalaushiny (philippov.spb.ru, version 03.02 of 13 July 2025)

◈ S001, dedication paragraph 5 →

…gathered the facts grain by grain” about the family, thought the founder was “most likely a Don Cossack” […]. This is his suggestion; it can only be tested against the 18th-century lists of the Don and Khoper Cossack…

◈ S001, No. 34 paragraph 8 →

…“Prikazny Ilya КалОушин”, the compiler marking in capitals the letters that differ from the usual spelling […].

◈ S001, No. 92 paragraph 9 →

…remarked that “errors of this kind are very common both in the literature and in archival documents” […]. In the calendar for 1910 both brothers are printed alike: “Есаулъ Аф. Георг. Калаушинъ” (Yesaul Af. Georg.…

◈ S001, Nos. 46, 102 paragraph 10 →

…Grigoryevich (No. 46) and Nikolay Makarovich (No. 102) — is entered in the roster as “КОлОушины”, Koloushin […].

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 24 →

…were very highly prized”; in support the family cited the testimony of the Arabist historian Leonid Lavrov […].

◇ S001, No. 123 paragraph 26 →

…and that “many of the versions of the origin of the surname KALAUSHIN came from her and from him” […]. The roster does not say which versions Yuliya Matveyevna and her correspondent held.

S001, No. 1 paragraph 1 →

…documents is Trofim Pakhomovich Kalaushin, a Khoper Cossack of Stavropolskaya stanitsa (a Cossack village) […]. He was born about 1737, some forty years before the Khoper Regiment left its river for the Caucasus, and he…

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 15 →

…prized in the Caucasus in those days; the family cited the historian and Arabist Leonid Lavrov in support […]. More is told in the chapter on the workshop.

◈ S001, No. 2 paragraph 19 →

…of 1822–1825, 58 in 1827. Two of the four entries put her birth at about 1770, as the roster has it […]. △ That year also fits better with the birth of her youngest son, Andrey, in the early 1800s.

◈ S001, No. 1 paragraph 21 →

The compiler of the roster thought the founder “most likely a Don Cossack” […]. The Khoper community grew out of the Don Cossacks of the upper townships, joined at Novokhopyorsk by the…

◈ S001, No. 3, citing TsGVIA, f. 1058, op. 2, d. 143a paragraph 22 →

…and the year the 1815 revision tale yields too. In October 1810, aged seventeen, he began his service […]; under the rules of the day, youths from sixteen could already be called to the stanitsa reserve and the…

◈ S001, No. 3 paragraph 23 →

…as they stood in a later service record; the compiler himself noted his doubts about “Batalpashinskaya” […].

◇ S001, Nos. 7, 8 paragraph 26 →

…Nikolayevich the Second (in Boris Matveyevich’s account) and Afanasy Yegorovich (according to Lev Petrovich) […].

◈ S001, Nos. 7, 31 paragraph 27 →

…chronicle belongs descends from Ivan Trofimovich and his son Nikolay; it is followed in the next chapter […].

◇ S001, No. 7 paragraph 34 →

…grandson Nikolay Ivanovich (Nikolay Alekseyevich in the roster) was a Khoper Cossack and a master saddler […]. This is the first appearance in the family’s story of the craft for which the Kalaushins would be known in…

◈ S001, No. 2 paragraph 4 →

…51 and 70; two of the four entries agree with the year given by the compiler of the roster — around 1770 […].

◈ S001, No. 1 paragraph 5 →

…yet he judged the essentials correctly: the founder was born “about 1740” and had sons “Ivan and Aleksey” […]. The revision list gives the founder back his name. The compiler also suggested that the ancestor was “most…

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 8 →

…highly prized in the Caucasus; in support, the family cited the words of the Arabist historian Leonid Lavrov […].

◈ S001, dedication paragraph 17 →

…is the work of Aleksandr Borisovich, “who for more than forty years gathered the facts grain by grain” […]. In it the history of the family begins with “Aleksey Kalaushin (1791–1862)” and his sons: in the 1827…

◈ S001, No. 8, n. 2 paragraph 21 →

…he wrote: “A purely speculative assumption”; it rested on the premise that Ivan (b. 1793) had no children […]. The documents resolve the doubt in their own way: Andrey and Afanasy were not Aleksey’s sons but his…

◈ S001, No. 3 paragraph 21 →

…he wrote: “A purely speculative assumption”; it rested on the premise that Ivan (b. 1793) had no children […]. The documents resolve the doubt in their own way: Andrey and Afanasy were not Aleksey’s sons but his…

◈ S001, source 6 paragraph 26 →

…on children born in the 1830s and 1840s to “Name lists of the inhabitants of the stanitsa… for 1828” […]. The years of birth derived from them (1834, 1836, 1840–1846) can come only from the 1848 list. A genuine…

◈ S001, No. 3, citing TsGVIA, f. 1058, op. 2, d. 143a paragraph 27 →

…“fully discharged” in January 1839, and in 1849, aged 56, “was listed in the documents as a retired Cossack” […]. Note on the roster. The roster says that he began his service “in Batalpashinskaya stanitsa in the 2nd…

◇ S001, No. 7 paragraph 31 →

The family history records Nikolay as a master saddler […] — the craft for which his grandsons would later become known. Boris Matveyevich Kalaushin recalled that…

◇ S001, Nos. 7, 37 paragraph 31 →

The family history records Nikolay as a master saddler […] — the craft for which his grandsons would later become known. Boris Matveyevich Kalaushin recalled that…

◈ S001, No. 7 paragraph 32 →

…so Nikolay’s first cousin. The compiler himself thought that Georgy was to Nikolay “perhaps… only a nephew” […].

◈ S001, No. 31 paragraph 33 →

…(b. 1837), an uryadnik (Cossack non-commissioned officer) from 1855 and the father of Pavel Aleksandrovich […]. Through them runs the direct line of the author of this website, Vyacheslav Olegovich Kalaushin. Note on…

◈ S001, Nos. 31, 70 paragraph 33 →

…(b. 1837), an uryadnik (Cossack non-commissioned officer) from 1855 and the father of Pavel Aleksandrovich […]. Through them runs the direct line of the author of this website, Vyacheslav Olegovich Kalaushin. Note on…

◇ S001, No. 7 paragraph 33 →

…(b. 1837), an uryadnik (Cossack non-commissioned officer) from 1855 and the father of Pavel Aleksandrovich […]. Through them runs the direct line of the author of this website, Vyacheslav Olegovich Kalaushin. Note on…

◈ S001, No. 32 paragraph 33 →

…(b. 1837), an uryadnik (Cossack non-commissioned officer) from 1855 and the father of Pavel Aleksandrovich […]. Through them runs the direct line of the author of this website, Vyacheslav Olegovich Kalaushin. Note on…

◈ S001, Nos. 32, 71–76 paragraph 33 →

…(b. 1837), an uryadnik (Cossack non-commissioned officer) from 1855 and the father of Pavel Aleksandrovich […]. Through them runs the direct line of the author of this website, Vyacheslav Olegovich Kalaushin. Note on…

◈ S001, No. 19 paragraph 34 →

…Cossack in 1854, was promoted uryadnik in 1858, and held the bronze medal in memory of the War of 1853–1856 […]. In 1857 “Cossack Gavriil Ivanov Kalaushin and Yekaterina Antipova” had their daughter Nataliya baptised [◆…

◇ S001, No. 60 paragraph 34 →

…Cossack in 1854, was promoted uryadnik in 1858, and held the bronze medal in memory of the War of 1853–1856 […]. In 1857 “Cossack Gavriil Ivanov Kalaushin and Yekaterina Antipova” had their daughter Nataliya baptised [◆…

◈ S001, No. 8 paragraph 36 →

…was born around 1800–1803; choosing between 1801–1802 and 1824, the compiler rightly preferred the former […]. His first wife was Aleksandra (b. c. 1807), his second Anna (b. c. 1802); his children were Mikhail,…

◇ S001, No. 8 paragraph 38 →

…noted that relatives gave the same nickname to others as well — to Yegor and to Ilya Nikolayevich the second […].

◈ S001, No. 8 paragraph 39 →

…lists Afanasy’s service as uryadnik, then podkhorunzhy, khorunzhy and sotnik of the 1st Khoper Regiment […]. Yet in October 1857 his daughter Tatyana was married as a “KDD” — a Cossack’s unmarried daughter [◆ S013,…

◈ S001, Nos. 47, 92 paragraph 39 →

…lists Afanasy’s service as uryadnik, then podkhorunzhy, khorunzhy and sotnik of the 1st Khoper Regiment […]. Yet in October 1857 his daughter Tatyana was married as a “KDD” — a Cossack’s unmarried daughter [◆ S013,…

◈ S001, Nos. 42, 92, 93 paragraph 39 →

…lists Afanasy’s service as uryadnik, then podkhorunzhy, khorunzhy and sotnik of the 1st Khoper Regiment […]. Yet in October 1857 his daughter Tatyana was married as a “KDD” — a Cossack’s unmarried daughter [◆ S013,…

◈ S001, Nos. 10, 46 paragraph 40 →

…roster derives the Vladikavkaz “KOlOushins” from Grigory Alekseyevich (b. 1830), father of Makar and Fyodor […]; Grigory appears neither in the households of 1848 nor among the heads of household of 1860, and his place…

◈ S001, No. 23 paragraph 41 →

…squadron of His Majesty’s Own Convoy (hereafter the Convoy), the Cossack bodyguard of the Emperor, in 1877 […]. Matrona and Feodosiya, whom the roster also lists under this Andrey, were the daughters of Andrey Ivanovich…

◈ S001, No. 20 paragraph 42 →

One more name — Uryadnik Seleverst Ivanovich (b. 1848) […] — has yet to find its place: he could not have been a son of Yefrosinya Pavlovna (b. c. 1792), and there was…

◈ S001, No. 6, from the file “On the appointment of Uryadnik Kalaushin as chamber Cossack” paragraph 44 →

…subsistence money; a copy of the letter went “to the 5th Brigade of the C.L.C.H. (Batalpashinsk stanitsa)” […]. The Tsesarevna at the time was Maria Alexandrovna, Empress from 1855 [◈ S188, “Maria Alexandrovna…

◈ S001, No. 6 paragraph 44 →

…subsistence money; a copy of the letter went “to the 5th Brigade of the C.L.C.H. (Batalpashinsk stanitsa)” […]. The Tsesarevna at the time was Maria Alexandrovna, Empress from 1855 [◈ S188, “Maria Alexandrovna…

◈ S001, No. 6 paragraph 45 →

Note on the roster. The roster enters the chamber Cossack as Andrey Alekseyevich, b. 1816 […]; the 1853 letter itself gives no patronymic. The documents name him as Andrey Ivanovich, son of Ivan…

◈ S001, No. 9 paragraph 47 →

…read or write Russian”; married, with a daughter, Praskovya. “He died young,” the compiler ends the entry […].

◈ S001, No. 30 paragraph 48 →

…65, p. 138]. Note on the roster. The roster attributes this award to Stefan Nikolayevich, b. 26 April 1847 […] — but a boy of twelve could not have been decorated. △ Most likely this was Stepan (Stefan) Nikolayevich,…

◈ S001, No. 3 paragraph 51 →

…stanitsas of the Caucasus Line, Batalpashinskaya and Labinskaya, only at the beginning of the 19th century” […]. According to the documents, the family came to Batalpashinskaya from Stavropolskaya in 1826–1827, while…

◇ S001, No. 73 paragraph 54 →

…guardhouse for two days for an incautious answer. The promised gold watch never reached Fedot Alekseyevich […]. Relatives confirm the account […].

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 56 →

…Order No. 60 of 17 June 1900, “retaining the Guards uniform and awarded the badge for service in the Convoy” […]. During his service a Persian shah came to St Petersburg on a state visit only once: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah,…

◇ S001, No. 74 paragraph 58 →

…naturally since Fedot’s younger brother, Aleksandr Alekseyevich, also served in the Convoy under Trubetskoy […]. The full story is told in the chapters “At Court” and “The Workshop”.

◈ S001, No. 6, from the file “On the appointment of Uryadnik Kalaushin as chamber Cossack” paragraph 59 →

…Line Cossack Host, serving in His Highness’s Own Convoy, who is at present on leave in the Caucasus…” […]

◈ S001, No. 3, from TsGVIA, f. 1058, op. 2, d. 143a paragraph 3 →

…“into full retirement” in January 1839, and in 1849, aged fifty-six, was listed as a retired Cossack […]. In 1848 his household at Batalpashinskaya included his married sons Nikolay and Andrey with their families…

◈ S001, No. 9 paragraph 5 →

…of the War of 1853–1856 and a stripe for ten years’ service; he could not read or write, and he “died young” […]. The War Minister’s order of 22 June 1859 lists him among those decorated for actions on the Right Flank of…

◈ S001, No. 30 paragraph 7 →

…roster assigns the Psebay insignia (No. 10711) to Stefan Nikolayevich and gives his year of birth as 1847 […]. A Cossack decorated in 1859 cannot have been born in 1847. In 1848 Nikolay Ivanovich had a son Stefan, aged…

◈ S001, Nos. 23, 31, 32, 42 paragraph 8 →

…Andreyevich […] and Yegor (Georgy) Afanasyevich […] held the same medal and cross […]. Note on the roster: both Nikolayevichs are given the same insignia number, 19441; one number cannot have…

◈ S001, No. 42, from the 1874 service record paragraph 8 →

…Andreyevich […] and Yegor (Georgy) Afanasyevich […] held the same medal and cross […]. Note on the roster: both Nikolayevichs are given the same insignia number, 19441; one number cannot have…

◈ S001, No. 19 paragraph 8 →

…Andreyevich […] and Yegor (Georgy) Afanasyevich […] held the same medal and cross […]. Note on the roster: both Nikolayevichs are given the same insignia number, 19441; one number cannot have…

◈ S001, Nos. 34, 42 paragraph 10 →

…Yegor is Yegor Afanasyevich, uryadnik of the 2nd Khoper Regiment; the roster also records his Dayar award […]. Note on the roster. The roster enters the lance corporal as “Ilya the First Nikolayevich, b. 1880” [◈ S001,…

◈ S001, No. 34 paragraph 10 →

…Yegor is Yegor Afanasyevich, uryadnik of the 2nd Khoper Regiment; the roster also records his Dayar award […]. Note on the roster. The roster enters the lance corporal as “Ilya the First Nikolayevich, b. 1880” [◈ S001,…

◈ S001, No. 6, from the file “On the appointment of Uryadnik Kalaushin as chamber Cossack” paragraph 12 →

…serving in the Convoy, was appointed chamber Cossack (kamer-kazak) to the Tsesarevna, Maria Alexandrovna […]. Note on the roster. The roster names him Andrey Alekseyevich. According to the documents he is Andrey…

◈ S001, No. 23, from the list of uryadniks for 1877 paragraph 12 →

…serving in the Convoy, was appointed chamber Cossack (kamer-kazak) to the Tsesarevna, Maria Alexandrovna […]. Note on the roster. The roster names him Andrey Alekseyevich. According to the documents he is Andrey…

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 13 →

…[…], born in 1871, entered in the index of Host orders as a “saddler”, who took the oath in 1891 […]. The same index lists an Ivan Kalaushin, “uryadnik of the Convoy”, without patronymic […]; △ he was…

◈ S001, No. 77 paragraph 13 →

…[…], born in 1871, entered in the index of Host orders as a “saddler”, who took the oath in 1891 […]. The same index lists an Ivan Kalaushin, “uryadnik of the Convoy”, without patronymic […]; △ he was…

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 13 →

…[…], born in 1871, entered in the index of Host orders as a “saddler”, who took the oath in 1891 […]. The same index lists an Ivan Kalaushin, “uryadnik of the Convoy”, without patronymic […]; △ he was…

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 14 →

…III and then in St Petersburg under Nicholas II, as an uryadnik of the Life Guards 2nd Kuban Sotnia […]. In 1896 Uryadnik Fedot Alekseyevich and the Cossacks Mikhail Alekseyevich and I.M. Fisenko, entered as “in…

◇ S001, No. 73 paragraph 15 →

…Imperial Majesty — a title that, as the family tells it, was granted to him after the saddle for the Shah […]. Relatives confirm the account; it is recorded in the family history […].

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 16 →

…Alekseyevich served in the Convoy from 1892 and was discharged by Kuban Host Order No. 60 of 17 June 1900 […]; the only state visit of a Persian shah to St Petersburg in those years was that of Mozaffar ad-Din Shah,…

◇ S001, No. 74 paragraph 17 →

…[…]; according to Emiliya Fyodorovna Kalaushina, he served in St Petersburg in 1904–1908 […]. The Convoy celebrated its centenary in May 1911 at Tsarskoye Selo; among the guests were delegations of the…

◈ S001, No. 77 paragraph 17 →

…[…]; according to Emiliya Fyodorovna Kalaushina, he served in St Petersburg in 1904–1908 […]. The Convoy celebrated its centenary in May 1911 at Tsarskoye Selo; among the guests were delegations of the…

◈ S001, No. 92, from the alphabetical list of Kuban Host officers, TsGVIA, f. 330, op. 60, d. 1271 paragraph 19 →

…in 1891 was commissioned khorunzhy in the 1st Uman Regiment, and in 1895 became sotnik (lieutenant) […]. In 1902 he was transferred to the 1st Khoper Regiment; in 1905 he received the Order of St Stanislaus, 3rd…

◇ S001, No. 92 paragraph 20 →

…what Lev Petrovich said, the compiler of the roster believed that it was he whom the family called “Lagaga” […].

◈ S001, No. 47 paragraph 21 →

…1864 — khorunzhy in 1891, sotnik in 1895, yesaul from 1903, and in 1914 a yesaul of the 1st Taman Regiment […]. △ This is the same Afanasy Yegorovich: the date of birth, ranks, regiments and the order of 1905 all…

◈ S001, No. 131 paragraph 23 →

…[…]. Note on the roster. The roster makes him a son of Mikhail Alekseyevich […], but Mikhail Alekseyevich was born in 1870, only seven years earlier. △ Yefim’s father was probably one of…

◈ S001, No. 131 paragraph 26 →

…to 1.01.1917, via S152]. According to the roster he served with General Baratov’s Expeditionary Corps […]. Note on the roster. The Orders of St Anna, 3rd class with swords and bow, and 2nd class with swords, which…

◇ S001, No. 100 paragraph 30 →

…landed by force, seized several trains, abandoned them short of Mineralnye Vody and rode home on horseback […].

◈ S001, No. 6 paragraph 1 →

…“in the Own Convoy that guarded the Imperial Family”, and its first — “perhaps its last” — chamber Cossack […]. The sources know of no other chamber Cossack in the family, but the road to court he had opened stayed…

◈ S001, No. 6, from the file “On the appointment of Uryadnik Kalaushin as chamber Cossack” paragraph 3 →

…money for the journey, and all written particulars about him were to be forwarded to the Chancellery […]. The Tsesarevna was then Maria Alexandrovna, wife of the Heir — the future Emperor Alexander II. In 1852…

◈ S001, No. 6 paragraph 4 →

…money from Stavropol to St Petersburg. Andrey Kalaushin was appointed chamber Cossack on 2 September 1853 […].

◈ S001, note to No. 8 paragraph 6 →

…The compiler himself noted that Andrey’s descent from Aleksey was “purely a speculative assumption” […]. The confessional register of Batalpashinskaya for 1848 names two Andrey Kalaushins. One is Andrey…

◈ S001, No. 23 paragraph 11 →

…Caucasus”, and the records for 1877 list him as an uryadnik of the 1st squadron of His Majesty’s Own Convoy […]. Here the compiler cites the 1877 list of uryadniks on internal service in the Batalpashinsk Department; the…

◈ S001, No. 6 paragraph 12 →

…the compiler allowed that Fyodor “was born earlier” and did not go to St Petersburg with his parents […]. In the 1848 confessional register the eleven-year-old Fyodor is the son of Andrey Trofimovich and Feodosiya…

◈ S001, Nos. 32, 75 paragraph 13 →

…Mikhail, Fedot and Aleksandr — followed their father’s craft; the fifth, Savva (Savely), became a teacher […]. Three of the four craftsmen brothers served in the Convoy. Matvey Alekseyevich, as the family remembers,…

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 13 →

…Mikhail, Fedot and Aleksandr — followed their father’s craft; the fifth, Savva (Savely), became a teacher […]. Three of the four craftsmen brothers served in the Convoy. Matvey Alekseyevich, as the family remembers,…

◈ S001, No. 72 paragraph 14 →

…of the Convoy […]; according to the roster, he served four years in the Convoy […].

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 15 →

…then in the capital, St Petersburg, under Nicholas II”, as an uryadnik of the Life Guards 2nd Kuban Sotnia […].

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 18 →

…permitted to accept and wear the Mecklenburg-Schwerin silver medals of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III” […]; the day of the month is unclear in the roster’s text, and a commentator on Kubanskaya genealogiya gives 13…

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 21 →

…discharged Fedot Alekseyevich “retaining the Guards uniform and awarded the badge for service in the Convoy” […].

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 22 →

…that Fedot Alekseyevich served in the Convoy “from 1892 to 1911” and came home “after 19 years of service” […]. The number and date of the order are the firmest anchor in the entry, so his years in the Convoy are…

◇ S001, No. 73 paragraph 24 →

…Imperial Majesty — a title that, as the family tells it, was granted to him after the saddle for the Shah […]. Relatives confirm this account; it is recorded in the family history […].

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 26 →

…Alekseyevich served in the Convoy from 1892 and was discharged by Kuban Host Order No. 60 of 17 June 1900 […]. The only state visit of a Persian shah to St Petersburg in those years was that of Mozaffar ad-Din Shah,…

◇ S001, Nos. 74, 138 paragraph 36 →

…1904, his son Boris was born — the first of the direct line of the Kalaushins to be born in St Petersburg […]. His daughters remembered their father as a dashing horseman. Lyudmila Aleksandrovna said that he could…

◇ S001, No. 74 paragraph 36 →

…1904, his son Boris was born — the first of the direct line of the Kalaushins to be born in St Petersburg […]. His daughters remembered their father as a dashing horseman. Lyudmila Aleksandrovna said that he could…

◈ S001, No. 77 paragraph 39 →

…551; f. 396, op. 1, d. 10213, 10239]. The roster calls him a Convoy man, formerly an uryadnik of the Convoy […]; a Convoy uryadnik Ivan Kalaushin also appears in the index of Kuban Host orders for 1880–1899 [◈ S033, via…

◈ S001, No. 77 paragraph 41 →

…the Life Guards Caucasian Cossack Regiment and sent to the front, and in June of that year it was disbanded […]. With it passed into history the service at court to which the Kalaushins of Batalpashinskaya had given more…

◈ S001, No. 6, the compiler’s transcription paragraph 42 →

…Kalaushin, on receipt of this, be sent at once to St Petersburg, should he so wish, with his whole family” […].I.S. Kravtsov on Alexander II’s meeting with the Cossack deputation at Labinskaya, 1861. “‘And do you…

◇ S001, No. 74 paragraph 1 →

…direct line for certain, and as far as the side line of Gavrila — were saddlers,” the family history records […].

◇ S001, No. 7 paragraph 2 →

…The earliest master saddler the family manuscript remembers is Nikolay, born in 1817 and married to Vasilisa […]. His son Aleksey Nikolayevich kept a saddlery workshop in Batalpashinskaya and, in his relatives’ words, was…

◇ S001, No. 32 paragraph 2 →

…The earliest master saddler the family manuscript remembers is Nikolay, born in 1817 and married to Vasilisa […]. His son Aleksey Nikolayevich kept a saddlery workshop in Batalpashinskaya and, in his relatives’ words, was…

◇ S001, No. 60 paragraph 2 →

…The earliest master saddler the family manuscript remembers is Nikolay, born in 1817 and married to Vasilisa […]. His son Aleksey Nikolayevich kept a saddlery workshop in Batalpashinskaya and, in his relatives’ words, was…

◈ S001, No. 32, after KOV 1888 paragraph 6 →

Note on the roster. The roster identifies this master (“A. Kalaushin”, 1887) as Aleksey Nikolayevich […]. In the 1890 report the department’s saddle master — unable to read and write, as in 1887 — is named as…

◇ S001, Nos. 71, 72 paragraph 6 →

Note on the roster. The roster identifies this master (“A. Kalaushin”, 1887) as Aleksey Nikolayevich […]. In the 1890 report the department’s saddle master — unable to read and write, as in 1887 — is named as…

◈ S001, Nos. 32, 71–76 paragraph 10 →

…daughter: Matvey (b. 1867), Mikhail (b. 1870), Fedot (b. 1871), Aleksandr (b. 1877 or 1878), Savva and Anna […]. Four of the brothers — Matvey, Mikhail, Fedot and Aleksandr — became saddlers and harness-makers. Note on…

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 11 →

…then in the capital, St Petersburg, under Nicholas II”, as an uryadnik of the Life Guards 2nd Kuban Sotnia […]. Aleksandr Alekseyevich was an uryadnik of the Convoy in 1904–1908, and his son Boris was born in the Convoy…

◇ S001, No. 74, as told by Emiliya Fyodorovna Kalaushina paragraph 11 →

…then in the capital, St Petersburg, under Nicholas II”, as an uryadnik of the Life Guards 2nd Kuban Sotnia […]. Aleksandr Alekseyevich was an uryadnik of the Convoy in 1904–1908, and his son Boris was born in the Convoy…

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 11 →

…then in the capital, St Petersburg, under Nicholas II”, as an uryadnik of the Life Guards 2nd Kuban Sotnia […]. Aleksandr Alekseyevich was an uryadnik of the Convoy in 1904–1908, and his son Boris was born in the Convoy…

◇ S001, No. 73 paragraph 14 →

…the signboard of his workshop declared that it belonged to a Purveyor to the Court of His Imperial Majesty […]. The account is recorded in the family history, and relatives confirm it […].

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 17 →

…Cossack Host of 17 June 1900, “retaining the Guards uniform and awarded the badge for service in the Convoy” […]. After that the records find him back in the Kuban: a silver medal at the Yekaterinodar exhibition in 1902,…

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 28 →

…for Matvey Alekseyevich too: his grave in Labinskaya bore the words “Purveyor to the Court of His Majesty” […]. Relatives also remembered “a great patent for supplying saddles to the Imperial Convoy” […].

◇ S001, No. 72 paragraph 28 →

…for Matvey Alekseyevich too: his grave in Labinskaya bore the words “Purveyor to the Court of His Majesty” […]. Relatives also remembered “a great patent for supplying saddles to the Imperial Convoy” […].

◇ S001, Nos. 71, 72 paragraph 32 →

…workshop’s products more than once won prizes and gold medals at the world exhibitions in Paris and London […].

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 34 →

…very highly valued in the Caucasus”, and in support the family cited the historian and Arabist Leonid Lavrov […]. The family had gone for such steel before: Boris Matveyevich, retelling his father’s words, said that on…

◇ S001, No. 32 paragraph 34 →

…very highly valued in the Caucasus”, and in support the family cited the historian and Arabist Leonid Lavrov […]. The family had gone for such steel before: Boris Matveyevich, retelling his father’s words, said that on…

◈ S001, No. 122 paragraph 36 →

…(632), 2013]. Matvey Alekseyevich’s family also had ties to Kutais: his son Aleksey was born there in 1894 […]. The Kalaushins also received blades from the state works at Zlatoust: lists of unclaimed railway freight…

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 37 →

…improve relations with Austria-Hungary; war came all the same in 1914, after the Archduke’s assassination […]. Relatives confirm that the commission was completed […].

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 38 →

Matvey Alekseyevich died in 1912 […], so the work was finished by that year at the latest; △ if it was his last commission, probably in…

◇ S001, No. 72 paragraph 40 →

Three of the brothers — Matvey, Mikhail and Aleksandr — lived in Labinskaya […]. Here in 1904 Matvey Alekseyevich’s son Matvey was born, the future Pushkin scholar M.M. Kalaushin [◈ S170,…

◇ S001, No. 72 paragraph 41 →

…on what is now Khalturina Street, between Krasnaya and Mira, and that stretch was called “Kalaushin Lane” […].

◇ S001, No. 74 paragraph 42 →

…house in Labinskaya “together with a power station and a cinema”, where his son Boris showed films […]. The 1914 table of the stanitsa’s commercial and industrial establishments lists a single power station,…

◇ S001, Nos. 32, 74 paragraph 42 →

…house in Labinskaya “together with a power station and a cinema”, where his son Boris showed films […]. The 1914 table of the stanitsa’s commercial and industrial establishments lists a single power station,…

◇ S001, No. 73 paragraph 43 →

…and came back in the autumn, and the senior master was like one of the family in the owner’s house […].

◇ S001, Nos. 71, 72 paragraph 44 →

…Alekseyevich was accidentally shot while hunting. The family workshop passed to Aleksandr Alekseyevich […].

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 45 →

…ataman of the stanitsa again during the Civil War, and in 1920 he was shot in Batalpashinskaya as a hostage […].

◇ S001, No. 74 paragraph 46 →

…he was a good saddler”; a sentry was posted at his house, and Red Army men were taught saddlery inside it […]. Aleksandr Alekseyevich died in Sukhumi in 1933 […].

◇ S001, No. 100 paragraph 4 →

…several trains by force, and “short of Mineralnye Vody they left the trains and rode off home on horseback” […].

◈ S001, No. 131 paragraph 5 →

…Starshina (Cossack lieutenant colonel) Yefim (Yevfimy) Mikhailovich Kalaushin also served in Baratov’s corps […], and “with him on this expedition were another Kalaushin, a sotnik … and also a praporshchik Kalaushin” [◈…

◇ S001, No. 134 paragraph 8 →

…autumn of 1918, when Shkuro took the stanitsa, and served under him as a podkhorunzhy (senior Cossack NCO) […]. Nikolay Aleksandrovich […], born in 1901, a son of Aleksandr Alekseyevich […],…

◇ S001, No. 137 paragraph 8 →

…autumn of 1918, when Shkuro took the stanitsa, and served under him as a podkhorunzhy (senior Cossack NCO) […]. Nikolay Aleksandrovich […], born in 1901, a son of Aleksandr Alekseyevich […],…

◇ S001, No. 131 paragraph 8 →

…autumn of 1918, when Shkuro took the stanitsa, and served under him as a podkhorunzhy (senior Cossack NCO) […]. Nikolay Aleksandrovich […], born in 1901, a son of Aleksandr Alekseyevich […],…

◈ S001, Nos. 122, 125, 126 paragraph 8 →

…autumn of 1918, when Shkuro took the stanitsa, and served under him as a podkhorunzhy (senior Cossack NCO) […]. Nikolay Aleksandrovich […], born in 1901, a son of Aleksandr Alekseyevich […],…

◇ S001, No. 60 paragraph 10 →

…the Caucasus”, and his brother were, as the family remembers, killed with pitchforks during the Civil War […]. Darya Vasilyevna Kalaushina […] was “killed by the Reds without trial” in Bekeshevskaya stanitsa…

◇ S001, No. 97 paragraph 10 →

…the Caucasus”, and his brother were, as the family remembers, killed with pitchforks during the Civil War […]. Darya Vasilyevna Kalaushina […] was “killed by the Reds without trial” in Bekeshevskaya stanitsa…

◇ S001, Nos. 82–84 paragraph 10 →

…the Caucasus”, and his brother were, as the family remembers, killed with pitchforks during the Civil War […]. Darya Vasilyevna Kalaushina […] was “killed by the Reds without trial” in Bekeshevskaya stanitsa…

◈ S001, Nos. 31, 70 paragraph 12 →

…for Aleksandr Nikolayevich (“He has a son Pavel”) show that his father is No. 31, Aleksandr Nikolayevich […]. △ The parent numbers in this part of the roster appear to have shifted when the manuscript was retyped.

◇ S001, No. 70 paragraph 15 →

…and the barn was set on fire. “Only by a miracle did they escape.” Afterwards the family lived in Cherkessk […].

◈ S001, Nos. 70, 117–119 paragraph 16 →

…names three sons of Pavel Aleksandrovich: Mikhail (b. 1908), Nikolay (b. 1911) and Vyacheslav (b. 1915) […]. Mikhail Pavlovich, the author’s great-grandfather, grew up a serious, strict, punctual man of principle and…

◇ S001, No. 117 paragraph 16 →

…names three sons of Pavel Aleksandrovich: Mikhail (b. 1908), Nikolay (b. 1911) and Vyacheslav (b. 1915) […]. Mikhail Pavlovich, the author’s great-grandfather, grew up a serious, strict, punctual man of principle and…

◇ S001, Nos. 119, 202 paragraph 16 →

…names three sons of Pavel Aleksandrovich: Mikhail (b. 1908), Nikolay (b. 1911) and Vyacheslav (b. 1915) […]. Mikhail Pavlovich, the author’s great-grandfather, grew up a serious, strict, punctual man of principle and…

◈ S001, Nos. 31, 32, 70, 73 paragraph 19 →

In 1917 Fedot Alekseyevich Kalaushin […], a first cousin of Pavel Aleksandrovich […], was 46. Behind him lay eight years in His Majesty’s Own Convoy (the Cossack bodyguard of the Emperor),…

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 19 →

In 1917 Fedot Alekseyevich Kalaushin […], a first cousin of Pavel Aleksandrovich […], was 46. Behind him lay eight years in His Majesty’s Own Convoy (the Cossack bodyguard of the Emperor),…

◇ S001, No. 73 paragraph 21 →

…guardhouse for two days for an incautious answer. The promised gold watch never reached Fedot Alekseyevich […]. Relatives confirm the account; it is recorded in the family history […].

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 23 →

…Order No. 60 of 17 June 1900, “retaining the Guards uniform and awarded the badge for service in the Convoy” […]. The only state visit of a Persian shah to St Petersburg in those years was that of Mozaffar ad-Din Shah,…

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 25 →

…Petersburg in May 1889, in the reign of Alexander III, before Fedot Alekseyevich had taken the oath (1891) […]. When Mozaffar ad-Din Shah met Nicholas II at the manoeuvres near Kursk in 1902 and at Peterhof in 1905,…

◇ S001, No. 74 paragraph 26 →

…under whom, in 1906–1908, Fedot’s younger brother Aleksandr Alekseyevich also served in the Convoy […]. This is a note on names, not a contradiction of the account. Watches were a customary imperial reward in…

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 27 →

…War, under the Armed Forces of South Russia, Fedot Alekseyevich was once again ataman of Batalpashinskaya […]. The roster records his end briefly: “shot by the Bolsheviks as a hostage in Batalpashinskaya stanitsa by…

◇ S001, No. 134 paragraph 31 →

…Sukhumi) and worked as a driver for N.A. Lakoba, chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of Abkhazia […]. Fedot Alekseyevich’s other children, Anna, Aleksey and Mariya, later lived in Sukhum as well [◇ S001, Nos.…

◇ S001, Nos. 74, 133, 135, 136 paragraph 31 →

…Sukhumi) and worked as a driver for N.A. Lakoba, chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of Abkhazia […]. Fedot Alekseyevich’s other children, Anna, Aleksey and Mariya, later lived in Sukhum as well [◇ S001, Nos.…

◇ S001, No. 73 paragraph 31 →

…Sukhumi) and worked as a driver for N.A. Lakoba, chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of Abkhazia […]. Fedot Alekseyevich’s other children, Anna, Aleksey and Mariya, later lived in Sukhum as well [◇ S001, Nos.…

◇ S001, No. 136 paragraph 31 →

…Sukhumi) and worked as a driver for N.A. Lakoba, chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of Abkhazia […]. Fedot Alekseyevich’s other children, Anna, Aleksey and Mariya, later lived in Sukhum as well [◇ S001, Nos.…

◇ S001, No. 74 paragraph 33 →

…house in Labinskaya “together with a power station and a cinema”, where his son Boris showed the films […].

◇ S001, No. 74 paragraph 35 →

…75] and Fedot and to the orphaned Shcherbinin children — “they lived as one big family of nineteen people” […].

◇ S001, No. 74 paragraph 36 →

…go for one gold coin, saying that her mother was “completely blind” and of no use to anyone. They let her go […].

◈ S001, No. 138 paragraph 37 →

…— so his labour book records. It was the very cinema that had belonged to the family before the Revolution […]. In 1926 Boris Aleksandrovich became a student of chemistry at Leningrad University, and in August 1929 he…

◈ S001, No. 141 paragraph 39-1 →

…a steam thresher and employer of hired labour”; the roster enters her as the wife of Mikhail Aleksandrovich […], △ but he was eighteen in 1930, and her place in the family has yet to be established.

◈ S001, No. 104 paragraph 39-2 →

…[…], before the Revolution a teacher and head of the two-class school at Zelenchukskaya […] — “as one living on unearned income from letting premises”. Note on the roster: the roster puts his birth at…

◈ S001, No. 128 paragraph 39-5 →

…letting of houses”. The roster identifies her with Pelageya Matveyevna, daughter of Matvey Alekseyevich […].

◇ S001, No. 100 paragraph 41 →

…was called in 1934–1937 — bought an old, tumbledown cottage there and was reunited with his family […].

◇ S001, No. 43 paragraph 42 →

Grigory Vasilyevich Kalaushin […], Roman Vasilyevich’s half-brother on the father’s side […], was born in 1888 in Starobekeshevskaya stanitsa and lived in Novobekeshevskaya; the Book of Memory lists…

◇ S001, No. 98 paragraph 42 →

Grigory Vasilyevich Kalaushin […], Roman Vasilyevich’s half-brother on the father’s side […], was born in 1888 in Starobekeshevskaya stanitsa and lived in Novobekeshevskaya; the Book of Memory lists…

◈ S001, No. 118 paragraph 43 →

…Aleksandrovich’s family: Pavel Aleksandrovich’s son Nikolay was called up in July 1941 from Kustanay itself […]. Ivan Pavlovich is not in the roster, and his place in the family has yet to be established.

◇ S001, No. 104 paragraph 45 →

According to the roster, Sergey Ivanovich was repressed in 1937 and later rehabilitated […]. Nikolay Fedotovich, who had moved from Sukhum to Leningrad, was arrested in the late 1930s and exiled to…

◇ S001, No. 134 paragraph 45 →

According to the roster, Sergey Ivanovich was repressed in 1937 and later rehabilitated […]. Nikolay Fedotovich, who had moved from Sukhum to Leningrad, was arrested in the late 1930s and exiled to…

◇ S001, No. 141 paragraph 45 →

According to the roster, Sergey Ivanovich was repressed in 1937 and later rehabilitated […]. Nikolay Fedotovich, who had moved from Sukhum to Leningrad, was arrested in the late 1930s and exiled to…

◇ S001, No. 74 paragraph 45 →

According to the roster, Sergey Ivanovich was repressed in 1937 and later rehabilitated […]. Nikolay Fedotovich, who had moved from Sukhum to Leningrad, was arrested in the late 1930s and exiled to…

◇ S001, No. 138 paragraph 46 →

…authorities came to their senses only before the war”, the compiler of the roster wrote of those years […]. And on 16 July 1992 the resolution of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation “On the rehabilitation…

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 1 →

…of his sons, Aleksey, Aleksandr and Nikolay, emigrated abroad with the Whites,” the family history records […]. The youngest, Matvey Matveyevich […], stayed: from 1920, while still at the gymnasium (grammar…

◈ S001, Nos. 32, 34, 85 paragraph 2 →

…an officer of the Cossack infantry and, according to the roster, a first cousin of Matvey Alekseyevich […]. This chapter follows their paths — from the Volga and Primorye to Harbin, from the Crimea to…

◈ S001, No. 122 paragraph 3 →

Aleksey Matveyevich […] was born, according to the roster, in 1894 at Kutais (Kutaisi) […]. He finished the Labinskaya gymnasium and the Yelisavetgrad Cavalry School, from which an Imperial Order of…

◈ S001, No. 122 paragraph 5 →

…the third intake of the Academy of the General Staff, and in the summer and autumn of 1918 its senior course […]. A single line in A.V. Ganin’s reference book captures the turning point of that year: “Courses, 3rd intake,…

◈ S001, No. 122 paragraph 6 →

…of the People’s Army, and from October to December he was assistant chief of staff of the Samara Brigade […]. The same post appears in the list of General Staff officers on the Eastern Front as of 24 February 1919:…

◈ S001, No. 122 paragraph 7 →

…vol. “K”]; according to the roster, Aleksey Matveyevich had served with the border units since February 1922 […]. In October and early November 1922 the Zemskaya Rat crossed the frontier into China and Korea in three…

◈ S001, No. 122 paragraph 8 →

…[…]. According to the roster, Aleksey Matveyevich served in the Russian Group in 1924–1927 […]. △ He seems, then, to have found himself once more under his commander of 1919.

◈ S001, No. 122 paragraph 9 →

…died in Harbin in April 1941 “in unexplained circumstances” and was buried in the New Uspensky Cemetery […].

◈ S001, source 29 paragraph 10 →

…a BREM questionnaire. The roster’s list of sources includes the reference “GAKhK, f. R-830, op. 3, d. 18923” […] (in the entry itself the questionnaire details carry the neighbouring number, 30; the footnote numbers in…

◈ S001, No. 85 paragraph 11 →

…He began as a Cossack and an uryadnik (Cossack NCO) in the 5th Kuban Plastun (Cossack infantry) Battalion […], was commissioned khorunzhy in the 3rd Kuban Plastun Battalion in 1900, by 1909 was senior adjutant of the…

◈ S001, No. 85 paragraph 14 →

Note on the roster. The roster states: “Colonel from 18 December 1920” […]. Volkov’s entry, on which this rests, reads: “Colonel. On 18 Dec. 1920 was to be evacuated on the ship…

◈ S001, No. 125 paragraph 22 →

Nikolay Matveyevich […] was born, according to the roster, in about 1894 in Labinskaya stanitsa […]. His entry in S.V. Volkov’s database Participants of the White Movement in Russia is brief: “Cossack of the…

◇ S001, Nos. 125, 210, 211 paragraph 27 →

…children: a daughter, Taisiya […], born in 1919, and a son, Anatoly […] (1920–1971) […].

◇ S001, Nos. 125, 126, 212 paragraph 29 →

…his brother Nikolay. He died in 1953; he had one child […], of whom the roster says nothing more […].

◈ S001, No. 126 paragraph 30 →

…“by 1938 in the Far East” — corresponds almost word for word to S.V. Volkov’s entry on Aleksey Matveyevich […]. Aleksandr Matveyevich is not among the seven Kalaushins in Volkov’s database. △ The entry on the elder…

◈ S001, introduction paragraph 31 →

…Nevinnomyssk, Omsk, St Petersburg, Tbilisi, Tolyatti, in Bekeshevskaya stanitsa “and even in the USA” […]. By its own rules, this chronicle gives only the name and relationship of relatives who are living today. If…

◇ S001, Nos. 74, 138 paragraph 2 →

…where his father, Aleksandr Alekseyevich, was serving as an uryadnik, a Cossack non-commissioned officer […]. He worked as a cinema projectionist, first in Labinskaya and later at Lenfilm; in June 1940 he was…

◈ S001, No. 138, from his work record book paragraph 2 →

…where his father, Aleksandr Alekseyevich, was serving as an uryadnik, a Cossack non-commissioned officer […]. He worked as a cinema projectionist, first in Labinskaya and later at Lenfilm; in June 1940 he was…

◇ S001, No. 138 paragraph 4 →

…in time to catch the troop train, and there, under the lime trees, his parents parted for the last time […].

◈ S001, No. 138 paragraph 5 →

…department of the 128th Rifle Division, with the rank of voyentekhnik (military technician) 2nd rank […]. On 30 July 1941 he wrote to his wife from near Novgorod; the family kept the letter:

S001, ◈ letter of B.A. Kalaushin to his wife, 30.07.1941, via S001, No. 138 paragraph 6 →

…in the cab of a lorry… Wait for me, if I live, not before a year and a half, or even two; be patient” […].

◇ S001, No. 138 paragraph 9 →

…from a photograph, wrote that as they fought their way back they had “not counted even half” of their men […].

◈ S001, No. 213 paragraph 12 →

…Boris Matveyevich […], was twelve. In the besieged city, and later in evacuation in Tashkent […], he wrote, illustrated and stitched together tiny booklets — more than a hundred and fifty of them in…

◇ S001, No. 213 paragraph 13 →

…the boy did all this at the age of twelve to fourteen, “having barely crawled out of death by starvation” […].

◇ S001, Nos. 125, 211 paragraph 14 →

…Matveyevich, who, the family recorded, left his wife and their children Taisiya and Anatoly behind in Russia […] — that is, a nephew of Matvey Matveyevich.

◈ S001, No. 106 paragraph 16 →

…and Ivan Andreyevich […] were the sons of Andrey Timofeyevich and Anastasiya Vasilyevna […]. Ilya, wounded in the head, died of his wounds on 11 December 1941 in the 424th Medical Battalion; he is…

◈ S001, Nos. 106, 188 paragraph 17 →

…as “father, Kalaushin Andrey”, whereas in the roster Andrey Timofeyevich was killed in the First World War […]. We give both versions.

◈ S001, No. 186 paragraph 18 →

Nikolay Sergeyevich […], born in 1920 and a schoolteacher before the war […], was a submachine-gunner in the 404th Rifle Regiment of the 176th Rifle Division. On 13 June 1943 he was…

◇ S001, No. 100 paragraph 23 →

…October 1895 in the stanitsa of Bekeshevskaya and served in the 3rd Khoper Regiment in the First World War […]. In November 1941, at forty-six, he was called up by the Cherkessk city military commissariat. He went…

◈ S001, No. 182 paragraph 23 →

…October 1895 in the stanitsa of Bekeshevskaya and served in the 3rd Khoper Regiment in the First World War […]. In November 1941, at forty-six, he was called up by the Cherkessk city military commissariat. He went…

◈ S001, No. 100 paragraph 24 →

…Vasilyevich taking part in the war in 1943–1945 and ending it “in Berlin, in the 1st Belorussian Front” […]; according to the award sheet he had been in the Red Army since 18 November 1941 [◆ S022, f. 33, op. 690306,…

◇ S001, Nos. 70, 118 paragraph 26 →

…(now Cherkessk), the son of Pavel Aleksandrovich, who was killed in the years of the Revolution […]. By trade Nikolay Pavlovich was a driver, and he was called up not in Cherkessk but in Kustanay [◈ S001, No.…

◈ S001, No. 118 paragraph 26 →

…(now Cherkessk), the son of Pavel Aleksandrovich, who was killed in the years of the Revolution […]. By trade Nikolay Pavlovich was a driver, and he was called up not in Cherkessk but in Kustanay [◈ S001, No.…

◈ S001, Nos. 117, 202 paragraph 27 →

…from 1908 to 1980). In 1943 his son Vyacheslav was born — the grandfather of the author of this website […].

◈ S001, No. 135, from Pamyat Naroda paragraph 28 →

…an evacuation hospital (SEG No. 1600), and from 11 February 1946 was on the strength of military unit 31874 […]. He died in Sukhumi in 1968 […].

◇ S001, No. 135 paragraph 28 →

…an evacuation hospital (SEG No. 1600), and from 11 February 1946 was on the strength of military unit 31874 […]. He died in Sukhumi in 1968 […].

◇ S001, No. 184 paragraph 30 →

…the rest of the family by the Revolution, the Civil War, de-Cossackisation, prisons and the war of 1941–1945 […]. In 1983 Nikolay Nikolayevich wrote to relatives: “Our childhood was very hard; we were cut off from our…

◈ S001, No. 183 paragraph 32 →

…he worked for fifteen years in Rostov-on-Don and was called up in 1939 in Ordzhonikidze (Vladikavkaz) […]. According to the roster, he served in the 269th Guards Rifle Regiment, was shell-shocked, took part in the…

◇ S001, No. 184 paragraph 33 →

…234, op. 3231, d. 42, vol. 2a]. According to the roster, he spent his life in Vladikavkaz and kept a garden […].

◈ S001, No. 75 paragraph 34 →

…(Vladislav) Savelyevich […] was the son of Savva Alekseyevich, a teacher in Cossack schools […], and thus a first cousin of Matvey Matveyevich and Boris Aleksandrovich. He was born on 8 April 1918 in the…

◈ S001, No. 150 paragraph 34 →

…(Vladislav) Savelyevich […] was the son of Savva Alekseyevich, a teacher in Cossack schools […], and thus a first cousin of Matvey Matveyevich and Boris Aleksandrovich. He was born on 8 April 1918 in the…

◇ S001, No. 131 paragraph 35 →

…Colonel Yefim Mikhailovich […], who, the family recorded, went missing in the Civil War, in 1920 […]. He was born on 28 October 1910 in the village of Karakurt in the Kars region, graduated from an infantry…

◈ S001, No. 215 paragraph 35 →

…Colonel Yefim Mikhailovich […], who, the family recorded, went missing in the Civil War, in 1920 […]. He was born on 28 October 1910 in the village of Karakurt in the Kars region, graduated from an infantry…

◈ S001, No. 165 paragraph 36 →

…Victory over Germany” and the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class, by a fleet order of 19 January 1946 […].

◈ S001, No. 91, from the Kavkazsky kalendar paragraph 37 →

…lies in the Ust-Labinsk district), and from 1912 to 1914 he was head of the school at Gubskaya […]. △ Mikhail and Nikolay Semyonovich were probably his sons.

◈ S001, No. 103 paragraph 43 →

…the Revolution had headed the school at Nevinnomysskaya, was killed in the war, according to the roster […]. The youngest of the roster’s Kalaushins whose name appears in the military card indexes is Nikolay Lvovich,…

◈ S001, No. 192 paragraph 43 →

…the Revolution had headed the school at Nevinnomysskaya, was killed in the war, according to the roster […]. The youngest of the roster’s Kalaushins whose name appears in the military card indexes is Nikolay Lvovich,…

◇ S001, No. 190 paragraph 44 →

…family testimony. Fyodor Panteleimonovich […], the family remembers, was killed young in Hungary […].

◈ S001, No. 71 paragraph 2 →

…Yemelyanovna, née Podlobkova, was Matvey Alekseyevich’s second wife and herself a native of Labinskaya […].

◈ S001, No. 71 paragraph 4 →

There were nine children in the family (the roster names eleven from Matvey Alekseyevich’s two marriages […]), and the youngest, Matyusha, was fondly called Matylyok — a pet name that plays on motylyok, ‘little moth’.…

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 6 →

Matvey Alekseyevich died in 1912, when his youngest son was eight; the family spoke of an accidental shot […]. Three of Matvey Matveyevich’s elder brothers — Aleksey, Nikolay and Aleksandr — left with the Whites during…

◈ S001, No. 127 paragraph 7 →

In 1913 Matvey entered the Labinskaya gymnasium, from which he graduated in 1922 […].

◇ S001, No. 127 paragraph 8 →

…the revkom (revolutionary committee) of the aul (mountain village) of Khodz in the Adyghe Autonomous Oblast […].

◇ S001, No. 127 paragraph 9 →

…life, fate and work of Matvey Matveyevich became inseparably bound up with Petersburg,” his grandson writes […].

◇ S001, No. 213 paragraph 17 →

…gifts: “at six, at Trigorskoye, Borya went out sketching with the artists N.E. Radlov and L.S. Khizhinsky” […].

◈ S001, No. 213 paragraph 21 →

…to fourteen, made dozens of hand-written “little books”, acting as their author, illustrator and publisher […]. Matvey Matveyevich was awarded the Medal “For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”; it was…

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 27 →

…Reserve at the village of Mikhailovskoye, to whom Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin handed over this post” […]. Of the friendship between the two museum men the family said: “They were not just colleagues, not just…

◇ S001, No. 127 paragraph 27 →

…Reserve at the village of Mikhailovskoye, to whom Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin handed over this post” […]. Of the friendship between the two museum men the family said: “They were not just colleagues, not just…

◈ S001, No. 127 paragraph 28 →

…says that Geychenko was director “from 1944”; according to the Institute’s order, it was from 15 April 1945 […]. △ The family’s phrase “handed over the post” most likely grew from the fact that between July 1944 and…

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 29 →

…kinzhals (Caucasian daggers) and shashkas; Suleymanov was the father of Geychenko’s wife, Lyubov Dzhelalovna […].

◈ S001, No. 127 paragraph 40 →

…Matvey Matveyevich headed the museum “almost until his death”; according to the museum, it was until 1965 […]. According to the roster and the grandson’s sketch, the museum “was created on the basis of the Jubilee…

◇ S001, No. 127 paragraph 41 →

…and with his direct participation, 39 literary and art museums were created,” the family history records […].

◈ S001, No. 127 paragraph 47 →

…Fyodorovna, née Chirskova, who had studied at a music college under the well-known musician Sergey Alpers […]. They had a son, Boris (1929–1999), later a graphic artist and illustrator, and a daughter, Yuliya (b. 1939)…

◈ S001, Nos. 127, 213, 214 paragraph 47 →

…Fyodorovna, née Chirskova, who had studied at a music college under the well-known musician Sergey Alpers […]. They had a son, Boris (1929–1999), later a graphic artist and illustrator, and a daughter, Yuliya (b. 1939)…

◈ S001, Nos. 127, 139 paragraph 47 →

…Fyodorovna, née Chirskova, who had studied at a music college under the well-known musician Sergey Alpers […]. They had a son, Boris (1929–1999), later a graphic artist and illustrator, and a daughter, Yuliya (b. 1939)…

◈ S001, No. 139 paragraph 48 →

…— are so alike that the families probably first met there. The Chirskovs had two sons, Nikita and Fyodor […]. Boris Fyodorovich died in 1966; Aleksandra Aleksandrovna and their younger son were later buried beside him…

◇ S001, No. 74 paragraph 50 →

…Cossack bodyguard, in 1904–1908, and the birth of his son Boris in the Convoy barracks on Shpalernaya Street […]. Those St Petersburg years also help in matching the dates of another family account: the saddle for the…

◇ S001, No. 73 paragraph 52 →

…the Court of His Imperial Majesty; the gold watch promised with the title never reached Fedot Alekseyevich […]. The story is recorded in the family history, and relatives confirm it […].

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 54 →

…Cossack Host of 17 June 1900, “retaining the Guards uniform and awarded the badge for service in the Convoy” […]. The only state visit of a Persian shah to St Petersburg during his service was that of Mozaffar ad-Din…

◇ S001, No. 74 paragraph 55 →

…commander, under whom Fedot’s younger brother, Aleksandr Alekseyevich, served in the Convoy […]. Fedot Alekseyevich’s title of Purveyor to the Court is confirmed by the official list of 1915 […]. The…

◈ S001, No. 127 paragraph 56 →

…“he is incurably ill” […]. Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin died on 10 December 1968 […]. Three weeks later Emiliya Fyodorovna wrote to Yu.G. Oksman, who in 1934 had sat with her husband on the…

◇ S001, Nos. 127, 139, 224 paragraph 57 →

…Cemetery in St Petersburg, next to the Chirskovs; a bust of Matvey Matveyevich stands on his grave […].

◈ S001, No. 127 paragraph 59 →

…pervy direktor (“Our First Director”) in the Biron stables at Moika 12; his grandson attended the opening […]. From 11 February to 17 March 2005 the Mikhailovskoye Museum Reserve showed the exhibition Matvey…

◇ S001, Nos. 71, 73 paragraph 3 →

…— for Archduke Franz Ferdinand: a “political” order meant to help improve relations with Austria-Hungary […]. Relatives confirm both accounts — the saddle for the Shah, and that the commission for the Archduke was…

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 4 →

…Majesty’s Own Convoy from 1892 and was discharged by Order No. 60 of the Kuban Cossack Host of 17 June 1900 […], and the only state visit of a Persian shah to St Petersburg in those years was that of Mozaffar ad-Din…

◈ S001, No. 213 paragraph 6 →

Boris was born in Leningrad on 6 August 1929 […]. His father, the son of the Labinskaya saddler, worked from 1931 at Pushkin House — the Institute of…

◈ S001, No. 127 paragraph 6 →

Boris was born in Leningrad on 6 August 1929 […]. His father, the son of the Labinskaya saddler, worked from 1931 at Pushkin House — the Institute of…

◇ S001, No. 213 paragraph 8 →

…was already going out to paint from nature at Trigorskoye with the artists N.E. Radlov and L.S. Khizhinsky […].

◈ S001, No. 213 paragraph 11 →

…[…]. Boris Matveyevich later said of the booklets that “for me it was an absorbing game” […].

◈ S001, No. 213 paragraph 18 →

…Secondary Art School of the Academy of Arts in 1939–1941 and 1944–1949 (from 1940, according to the roster) […]. From 1950 to 1956 he studied in the graphic arts faculty of the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and…

◈ S001, No. 213 paragraph 19 →

…Tamara Georgiyevna Kalaushina (d. 2004); the roster records a wife, Elionora (1931–1995), and a son, Sergey […]. △ The two dates of death (1995 and 2004) do not contradict each other: Boris Matveyevich may have been…

◈ S001, No. 213 paragraph 29 →

…church of St Peter and St Paul on Nevsky Prospekt, the Vyazemsky estate, and the Benois house and its wing […].

◈ S001, No. 214 paragraph 31 →

Through Yuliya Matveyevna the composer Georgy Ivanovich Firtich (1938–2016) became part of the family […]. A jazz pianist and professor at the Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, he was named Honoured…

◇ S001, No. 32 paragraph 35 →

…of a Gypsy named Belavin; Aleksandr Borisovich, the compiler of the roster, believed she was an Adyghe […].

◈ S001, No. 32 paragraph 36 →

…since the first years of the stanitsa — the confessional register of 1827 lists a Cossack, Anton Bulavinov […].

◇ S001, No. 7 paragraph 38 →

…— had, so Boris Matveyevich said, a second son named Ilya; in the roster he carries the nickname “Lagaga” […].

◇ S001, No. 213 paragraph 40 →

…on Burliuk remained unfinished, and a hundred canvases, prepared and ready for work, were left behind […].

◈ S001, No. 213 paragraph 41 →

…in the Matyushin House (2008, The Living Organics of Form) and in the United States (November 2008) […]. From 17 September to 17 October 2015 the Green Hall of the All-Russian Pushkin Museum on the Moika, 12,…

◈ S001, No. 213 paragraph 45 →

…the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the private collections of H. Neuhoff (USA) and J. Howard (UK) […]; the All-Russian Pushkin Museum also names the Tretyakov Gallery and the Museum of the Academy of Arts [◈…

◈ S001, No. 9 paragraph 1 →

…Alekseyevich, an uryadnik (a Cossack non-commissioned officer), notes that he “cannot read or write Russian” […]. Their lives passed to their children in stories told at the table, in letters, in deeds of sale and in…

◈ S001, No. 145 paragraph 2 →

…of the schoolteacher Savva Alekseyevich and a teacher herself; she lived in Pyatigorsk with her daughter […], Iraida Yevgenyevna Sitnikova […], who also contributed. Then there were Emiliya Fyodorovna,…

◈ S001, Nos. 7, 19, 92, 193 paragraph 2 →

…of the schoolteacher Savva Alekseyevich and a teacher herself; she lived in Pyatigorsk with her daughter […], Iraida Yevgenyevna Sitnikova […], who also contributed. Then there were Emiliya Fyodorovna,…

◇ S001, Nos. 32, 73, 75 paragraph 4 →

…bottles. Of Fedot Alekseyevich’s orchard she wrote briefly: “The garden was immaculate. Irisha worked hard” […].

◇ S001, No. 32 paragraph 6 →

…eyes, but all his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren whom the compiler knew were dark-eyed […]. Their daughter, Anna Alekseyevna, was named after her mother […].

◇ S001, No. 76 paragraph 6 →

…eyes, but all his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren whom the compiler knew were dark-eyed […]. Their daughter, Anna Alekseyevna, was named after her mother […].

◈ S001, No. 32 paragraph 7 →

…from the stanitsa’s first years: the confessional register of 1827 lists a Cossack Anton Bulavinov […].

◇ S001, Nos. 7, 33, 37 paragraph 9 →

…remembered Anton Nikolayevich, whose three sons — Dmitry, Semyon and Nikita — were killed in the Civil War […].

◇ S001, Nos. 32, 74 paragraph 11 →

…young man, and that Aleksandr Alekseyevich served as an uryadnik of the Convoy in St Petersburg in 1904–1908 […]. Note on the roster. The entry for Matvey Matveyevich gives 1947 as the year of her death, but in May 1955…

◇ S001, Nos. 32, 142 paragraph 11 →

…young man, and that Aleksandr Alekseyevich served as an uryadnik of the Convoy in St Petersburg in 1904–1908 […]. Note on the roster. The entry for Matvey Matveyevich gives 1947 as the year of her death, but in May 1955…

◇ S001, No. 184 paragraph 12 →

…such ruptures to the Revolution, the Civil War, de-Cossackisation, prisons and the war of 1941–1945 […].

◇ S001, No. 70 paragraph 13 →

…were locked in a barn with other hostages and the barn was set alight; they escaped only by a miracle […]. The stanitsa changed hands more than once in those years (see the chapter “The Upheaval”). ◇ Kalausskaya…

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 13 →

…were locked in a barn with other hostages and the barn was set alight; they escaped only by a miracle […]. The stanitsa changed hands more than once in those years (see the chapter “The Upheaval”). ◇ Kalausskaya…

◈ S001, No. 138 paragraph 14 →

…mobilised on 22 June 1941 and in August that year, during the retreat from Novgorod, was reported missing […]. His eight-year-old son remembered the men gathering on the veranda that evening, his father saying he would…

◈ S001, No. 221 paragraph 15 →

…he graduated from a naval college and from 1954 to 1958 served as a naval officer, a lieutenant commander […]. But his life’s work became the family’s history. The online roster is dedicated to him — to Aleksandr…

◈ S001, dedication paragraph 15 →

…he graduated from a naval college and from 1954 to 1958 served as a naval officer, a lieutenant commander […]. But his life’s work became the family’s history. The online roster is dedicated to him — to Aleksandr…

◈ S001, introduction paragraph 16 →

…the narrative, as the introduction says, is “told in the voice of Aleksandr Borisovich Kalaushin” […]. He corresponded with relatives: the roster mentions letters from Olga Savvichna and Iraida Yevgenyevna and…

◈ S001, Nos. 32, 43, 75, 184, 193 paragraph 16 →

…the narrative, as the introduction says, is “told in the voice of Aleksandr Borisovich Kalaushin” […]. He corresponded with relatives: the roster mentions letters from Olga Savvichna and Iraida Yevgenyevna and…

◈ S001, sources nos. 5, 8–16, 22–25 paragraph 16 →

…the narrative, as the introduction says, is “told in the voice of Aleksandr Borisovich Kalaushin” […]. He corresponded with relatives: the roster mentions letters from Olga Savvichna and Iraida Yevgenyevna and…

◈ S001, Nos. 8, 92 paragraph 17 →

…the nickname “Lagaga” — “this still needs to be checked”; on the two Ilyas — “none of this is firm or exact” […]. It was precisely these caveats that showed where to look for documents. And on the main point he was right:…

◈ S001, No. 1 paragraph 17 →

…the nickname “Lagaga” — “this still needs to be checked”; on the two Ilyas — “none of this is firm or exact” […]. It was precisely these caveats that showed where to look for documents. And on the main point he was right:…

◈ S001, No. 100 paragraph 18 →

…was dispossessed as a “kulak” in the 1930s and ended the Second World War as a Red Army soldier in Berlin […]. Of the dekulakisation, the family remembers: “all they gave back was a sewing machine and an empty chest”…

◈ S001, No. 182 paragraph 18 →

…was dispossessed as a “kulak” in the 1930s and ended the Second World War as a Red Army soldier in Berlin […]. Of the dekulakisation, the family remembers: “all they gave back was a sewing machine and an empty chest”…

◈ S001, Nos. 8, 43 paragraph 19 →

…was one of his sons — as was Afanasy, from whom, according to the roster, Yury Romanovich’s line descends […].

◇ S001, No. 43, source 17 paragraph 21 →

…with his second wife, Fedosya Petrovna, his sons Pyotr, Nikolay and Grigory with their wives, and Roman […]. The family also remembered that Vasily Afanasyevich grew up in another family, the Afanasyevs, never knew…

◇ S001, No. 43 paragraph 21 →

…with his second wife, Fedosya Petrovna, his sons Pyotr, Nikolay and Grigory with their wives, and Roman […]. The family also remembered that Vasily Afanasyevich grew up in another family, the Afanasyevs, never knew…

◈ S001, introduction paragraph 24 →

…manuscript roster, supplemented with material from Istorichesky Cherkessk and the MyHeritage sites […]. It contains 265 entries in seven generations; the introduction lists 37 families continued by the women of…

◈ S001 paragraph 24 →

…manuscript roster, supplemented with material from Istorichesky Cherkessk and the MyHeritage sites […]. It contains 265 entries in seven generations; the introduction lists 37 families continued by the women of…

◈ S001, Nos. 1, 7, 15, 31, 70, 71, 127 paragraph 25 →

…in 1945, and on 10 June 1949 Matvey Matveyevich opened the All-Union Pushkin Museum in the Alexander Palace […].

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 28 →

…improve relations with Austria-Hungary; war came all the same in 1914, after the Archduke’s assassination […]. Relatives confirm that the commission was completed […].

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 29 →

Matvey Alekseyevich died in 1912 […], so the work was finished before then. From 1891 the Archduke was honorary chief of the Russian 26th Bug…

◇ S001, No. 73 paragraph 31 →

…guardhouse for two days for an incautious answer. The promised gold watch never reached Fedot Alekseyevich […]. Relatives confirm the account; it is recorded in the family history […].

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 32 →

…us in two records — the Istorichesky Cherkessk article and the roster, which repeats it almost word for word […]. The task the family set was not to test it but to match the years.

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 34 →

…Cossack Host of 17 June 1900, “retaining the Guards uniform and awarded the badge for service in the Convoy” […]. Note on the roster. The same entry gives the years “1892–1911”; the number and date of the order are more…

◇ S001, No. 74 paragraph 38 →

…in 1906–1914, and according to the family Fedot’s younger brother, Aleksandr Alekseyevich, served under him […]. △ For Kuban families his was the best-remembered commander’s name of those years, and in the story it most…

◈ S001, No. 213 paragraph 40 →

…for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments of the Leningrad branch of the Union of Artists […].

◈ S001, No. 127 paragraph 41 →

…Matvey Matveyevich’s centenary, and in 2005 there was an exhibition at the Mikhailovskoye Museum Reserve […]. For it his grandson, N.G. Firtich, wrote a biographical essay, which also records the motto of Matvey…

◈ S001, No. 32, from the 1902 deed in the family archive paragraph 49 →

…and the death of my wife Anna Nikitichna, my wife and I shall own and enjoy the whole of this property…” […]. “So Aleksey Nikolayevich loved Anna Nikitichna,” the compiler concludes.

S001, No. 1 paragraph 2-1 →

Trofim Pakhomovich Kalaushin (b. c. 1737, d. before 1827) — a Khoper Cossack of Stavropolskaya stanitsa […].

◈ S001, Nos. 1, 2, 7 paragraph 4 →

…(No. 1: “born about 1740”) through Aleksey (No. 2: “born about 1791”) to Nikolay Alekseyevich (No. 7) […]. Documents published by researchers after Aleksandr Borisovich Kalaushin […] compiled the roster…

◈ S001, Nos. 3, 5 paragraph 4 →

…(No. 1: “born about 1740”) through Aleksey (No. 2: “born about 1791”) to Nikolay Alekseyevich (No. 7) […]. Documents published by researchers after Aleksandr Borisovich Kalaushin […] compiled the roster…

◈ S001, No. 1 paragraph 4 →

…(No. 1: “born about 1740”) through Aleksey (No. 2: “born about 1791”) to Nikolay Alekseyevich (No. 7) […]. Documents published by researchers after Aleksandr Borisovich Kalaushin […] compiled the roster…

◈ S001, No. 1 paragraph 6 →

The compiler of the roster thought the founder was “most likely a Don Cossack” […]; where the Kalaushins came from before they joined the Khoper Regiment is not yet known, as the chapter “The…

◈ S001, No. 3, citing TsGVIA, f. 1058, op. 2, d. 143a paragraph 7 →

…he was discharged “into full retirement”, and in 1849, aged fifty-six, he was listed as a retired Cossack […]. In Batalpashinskaya he had his own household from 1827: “Cossack Ivan Kalaushin, 38. His wife Yefrosinya…

◇ S001, No. 7 paragraph 10 →

The family history records Nikolay Ivanovich as a Khoper Cossack and a master saddler […]. With him begins the craft for which the Kalaushins would become known in the generations that followed.…

◈ S001, Nos. 32, 71–76, 127 paragraph 12 →

…teacher Savva and of their sister Anna; his grandson was the Pushkin scholar Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin […]. The author’s line runs through another son, Aleksandr Nikolayevich.

◈ S001, No. 31, citing TsGVIA, f. 330, op. 56, d. 452 paragraph 13 →

…cited by the roster, the column “where he is” reads “at home”. “He has a son Pavel,” the compiler adds […]. △ The medal and the cross indicate that his service fell in the last years of the Caucasian War.

◈ S001, No. 32 paragraph 14 →

Note on the roster. The roster gives the same insignia number, 19441, for his brother Aleksey Nikolayevich […]; one number cannot have belonged to two men, and it can be checked against the RGVIA database Georgiyevskiye…

◈ S001, Nos. 31, 70 paragraph 15 →

…for Aleksandr Nikolayevich (“He has a son Pavel”) show that his father is No. 31, Aleksandr Nikolayevich […]. △ The parent numbers in this part of the roster appear to have shifted when the manuscript was retyped.

◇ S001, No. 70 paragraph 18 →

…and the barn was set on fire. “Only by a miracle did they escape.” Afterwards the family lived in Cherkessk […].

◈ S001, Nos. 70, 117–119 paragraph 19 →

…likely the three sons named in the roster: Mikhail (b. 1908), Nikolay (b. 1911) and Vyacheslav (b. 1915) […].

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 20 →

…In 1920 Pavel Aleksandrovich’s first cousin, Fedot Alekseyevich, was shot as a hostage in Batalpashinskaya […]. △ The family account is undated (“during the Revolution”) and fits either period of Soviet rule, 1918 or…

◈ S001, No. 117 paragraph 21 →

Mikhail Pavlovich was born in 1908 […]. His brother Nikolay Pavlovich (1911–1987), a driver, was called up in Kustanay in July 1941; in August 1945…

◈ S001, No. 118 paragraph 21 →

Mikhail Pavlovich was born in 1908 […]. His brother Nikolay Pavlovich (1911–1987), a driver, was called up in Kustanay in July 1941; in August 1945…

◇ S001, No. 119 paragraph 21 →

Mikhail Pavlovich was born in 1908 […]. His brother Nikolay Pavlovich (1911–1987), a driver, was called up in Kustanay in July 1941; in August 1945…

◇ S001, No. 117 paragraph 23 →

…from his settled routine. He lived independently and brought up his only son, Vyacheslav, in the same way […]. The family remembers him as an engineer in the food industry […].

◈ S001, No. 117 paragraph 24 →

…the author as “Kalaushin, M. P.”; the Russian State Library notes that the author is not named on the cover […]. Mikhail Pavlovich thus has a printed trace of his own, confirmed by a library catalogue and not by the…

◈ S001, No. 117 paragraph 25 →

Mikhail Pavlovich died in 1980 […].

◈ S001, No. 202 paragraph 26 →

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich was born in 1943 in Chimkent (now Shymkent) in the Kazakh SSR […] and was named after his father’s younger brother, Vyacheslav Pavlovich […]. He served,…

◇ S001, Nos. 119, 202 paragraph 26 →

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich was born in 1943 in Chimkent (now Shymkent) in the Kazakh SSR […] and was named after his father’s younger brother, Vyacheslav Pavlovich […]. He served,…

◇ S001, Nos. 202, 222 paragraph 28 →

…the compiler’s own brother, Dmitry Borisovich Kalaushin (1938–2011), “only shorter, and with light eyes” […].

◈ S001, No. 202 paragraph 29 →

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich’s wife was called Galina; they had a son, Oleg […]. According to the family, he met Galina there, in Chimkent […]. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich died in 1990 [◈…

◇ S001, No. 119 paragraph 36 →

…as a child during the Civil War. In 1943 his elder brother Mikhail gave his only son the name in his memory […]. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich’s grandson, the author of this chronicle, bears the same name. So one name has…

◈ S001, Nos. 6, 16, citing the file “On the appointment of Uryadnik Kalaushin as chamber Cossack” paragraph 38 →

…the Tsesarevna, the future Empress Maria Alexandrovna, and sent to St Petersburg with his wife and daughters […].

◇ S001, No. 73 paragraph 41 →

…to a Purveyor to the Court of His Imperial Majesty — a title granted to him after the saddle for the Shah […]. Relatives confirm this account; it is recorded in the family history […].

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 43 →

…Cossack Host of 17 June 1900, “retaining the Guards uniform and awarded the badge for service in the Convoy” […]. Note on the roster. The same entry also gives the years “from 1892 to 1911”; the 1900 order, with its…

◇ S001, No. 74 paragraph 45 →

…Alekseyevich, served in the Convoy in 1904–1908, his last years there falling under Trubetskoy’s command […]. △ For Kuban families his was the best-remembered commander’s name of those years, and in the account it…

◈ S001, No. 77 paragraph 47 →

…former Convoy man and a nephew of Aleksey Nikolayevich, and so another first cousin of Pavel Aleksandrovich […].

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 48 →

…Note on the roster. The roster says that Geychenko was “handed this post by Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin” […]; according to the documents and memoirs, Matvey Matveyevich was not himself styled director of the Reserve —…

◈ S001, dedication paragraph 1 →

…Kalaushin […] “for more than 40 years gathered, crumb by crumb” into the family roster […]; the documents of each period — revision tales and confessional registers, orders, newspapers, calendars,…

◈ S001, introduction paragraph 2 →

…entries, and, as its introduction says, the story “is told in the voice of Aleksandr Borisovich Kalaushin” […]. Its list of sources has 35 items: Aleksandr Borisovich’s own handwritten roster, extracts from files of the…

◈ S001, list of sources paragraph 2 →

…entries, and, as its introduction says, the story “is told in the voice of Aleksandr Borisovich Kalaushin” […]. Its list of sources has 35 items: Aleksandr Borisovich’s own handwritten roster, extracts from files of the…

S001, No. 1 paragraph 10-1 →

…stanitsa of 18 November 1815: household no. 321 records the founder of the family, Trofim Pakhomovich […], with his wife Avdotya and their children […]. We read it in…

S001, No. 7 paragraph 11-1 →

…D. 2716 is the parish register for 1857. In July “Cossack Nikolay Ivanov Kalaushin and Vassa Andreyeva” […] have a son named Ilya baptised — the second Ilya in the family: the elder was already three in the…

◈ S001, sources 4, 6 paragraph 11-1 →

…D. 2716 is the parish register for 1857. In July “Cossack Nikolay Ivanov Kalaushin and Vassa Andreyeva” […] have a son named Ilya baptised — the second Ilya in the family: the elder was already three in the…

◈ S001, list of sources paragraph 11-2 →

…op. 60, d. 1271 — alphabetical list of the officers of the Kuban Host; f. 400 — a service record of 1913 […]. The roster places the 1853 file on the appointment of Uryadnik Kalaushin as a chamber Cossack in “TsGVIA f.…

S001, No. 16 paragraph 11-2 →

…op. 60, d. 1271 — alphabetical list of the officers of the Kuban Host; f. 400 — a service record of 1913 […]. The roster places the 1853 file on the appointment of Uryadnik Kalaushin as a chamber Cossack in “TsGVIA f.…

◇ S001, No. 138 paragraph 12-2 →

…baptism of Boris Aleksandrovich, who, the family says, was born in the Convoy barracks on Shpalernaya Street […].

◈ S001, source 34 paragraph 12-3 →

…△ probably the student file of B.A. Kalaushin, 1926–1929, which the roster cites as “GIA SPb, op. 10” […]; the file of Matvey Matveyevich, who studied at the university in 1923–1926, may also be here.

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 13-1 →

…No. 5 of 13 January 1897, on his Mecklenburg medals; No. 60 of 17 June 1900, discharging him from the Convoy […]. From GAKK service records Kubanskaya genealogiya has already extracted a line of 1854: “Kalaushin Andrey…

S001, No. 77 paragraph 13-1 →

…No. 5 of 13 January 1897, on his Mecklenburg medals; No. 60 of 17 June 1900, discharging him from the Convoy […]. From GAKK service records Kubanskaya genealogiya has already extracted a line of 1854: “Kalaushin Andrey…

◈ S001, No. 32 paragraph 13-1 →

…No. 5 of 13 January 1897, on his Mecklenburg medals; No. 60 of 17 June 1900, discharging him from the Convoy […]. From GAKK service records Kubanskaya genealogiya has already extracted a line of 1854: “Kalaushin Andrey…

◈ S001, source 21 paragraph 13-2 →

…officer rank, roughly a cornet) […]. The minutes of 1930–1934 on disenfranchisement […]; the papers of the Batalpashinsk Department revolutionary committee and executive committee, 1920–1921; the…

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 13-2 →

…officer rank, roughly a cornet) […]. The minutes of 1930–1934 on disenfranchisement […]; the papers of the Batalpashinsk Department revolutionary committee and executive committee, 1920–1921; the…

◈ S001, source 29 paragraph 14-1 →

State Archive of Khabarovsk Krai (GAKhK), f. R-830, op. 3, d. 18923 appears in the roster’s list of sources […]. Fond R-830 is the Bureau of Russian Émigrés in Manchuria (BREM); △ this is probably the questionnaire of…

◇ S001, No. 73 paragraph 18 →

…guardhouse for two days for an incautious answer. The promised gold watch never reached Fedot Alekseyevich […].

◈ S001, No. 73 paragraph 20 →

…by Order No. 60 of the Kuban Cossack Host of 17 June 1900 with the badge for service in the Convoy […]. The only state visit of a Persian shah to St Petersburg during his service was that of Mozaffar ad-Din…

◇ S001, No. 74 paragraph 21 →

…commanded the Convoy in 1906–1914, and Fedot’s younger brother Aleksandr Alekseyevich served under him […]. △ The family most likely kept the name of the later, better-remembered commander. The title. The official…

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 25 →

…improve relations with Austria-Hungary; war came all the same in 1914, after the Archduke’s assassination […]. Relatives confirm that the commission was completed […].

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 26 →

Matvey Alekseyevich died in 1912 […], so the work was finished before then. From 1891 the Archduke was honorary chief of the Russian 26th Bug…

◇ S001, Nos. 71, 72 paragraph 30 →

…the workshop’s work had more than once won prizes and gold medals at world exhibitions in Paris and London […].

◇ S001, No. 71 paragraph 33 →

…highly prized in the Caucasus; in support the family cited the words of the Arabist historian Leonid Lavrov […].

◇ S001, No. 70 paragraph 36 →

…were locked in a barn with other hostages and the barn was set on fire; they escaped only by a miracle […]. Where to look: GA KChR — the papers of the Batalpashinsk Department revolutionary committee and executive…

◇ S001, No. 32 paragraph 38 →

…Anna Nikitichna was the daughter of a Gypsy named Belavin; Aleksandr Borisovich believed she was an Adyghe […]. Context. The roster enters her as née Bulavina […]; Cossacks named Bulavinov lived in…

◈ S001, Nos. 73, 74, 122 paragraph 40-3 →

…Aleksey Matveyevich was born in Kutais, and the families of Fedot and Aleksandr Alekseyevich lived in Sukhum […]; émigré collections — the Hoover Institution, the Museum of Russian History at Jordanville, the Kuban…

◈ S001, source 1 paragraph 42 →

…Yury Romanovich” in the encyclopaedia Istorichesky Cherkessk (cherkessk.su) — one of the roster’s sources […] and, △ most likely, the original record of the account of the saddle for the Shah — opens blank from our…

◈ S001, No. 32 paragraph 43 →

…[…] passed to the compiler of the roster, preserved Aleksey Nikolayevich’s words about his wife […]. If you have something of this kind, please share it — it will carry the chronicle forward.

◈ S001, sources 10, 17 paragraph 45-5 →

…letters quoted in it, the deeds of sale, the photograph of Vasily Afanasyevich’s family of 1904–1905 […] — please tell us where they are kept now.