N.G. Firtich, “Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin: on the centenary of his birth” (museum.ru, N20942, 2005)

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

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…children, and the family motto was “No feeling is holier than friendship” (Svyateye druzhby chuvstva net) […]. The Civil War divided the brothers by a frontier. “Three of his sons, Aleksey, Aleksandr and Nikolay,…

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…1904 Old Style (5 August New Style) in the stanitsa of Labinskaya in Kuban Oblast, now the town of Labinsk […]. His father, Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin […], a Cossack of Batalpashinskaya stanitsa, kept a…

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…of his shop “was more than once awarded prizes and gold medals at world exhibitions in Paris and London” […]. Matvey Alekseyevich’s grave at Labinskaya bore the words “Purveyor to the Court of His Majesty” [◇ S001,…

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

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

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

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…admission to postgraduate study in 1927 he submitted a work on “Pushkin and the Russian Historical Novel” […], and the 1934 directory of Leningrad scholars gives his field, briefly, as “the historical novel of the…

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…professor), and was sent to the Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences — Pushkin House […]. There he rose from research fellow and head of the exhibitions department to head of the Literary Museum [◈…

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…Bunin; he “more than once drew artists into museum work, commissioning paintings and sculptures from them” […]. In his article of 1936 Kalaushin himself lists the paintings by N.K. Shvede-Radlova and A.A. Osmerkin and…

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…the 2005 exhibition the same photograph was captioned as the opening of the house-museum at Mikhailovskoye […]. △ Vavilov was at both openings in those days — Granovskaya remembered that at Mikhailovskoye “Geychenko and…

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…the then young Anikushin was able to win the competition for the best monument to Pushkin” in Arts Square […].

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…the basis of the Jubilee Pushkin Exhibition” of 1937, of which Kalaushin was one of the leading organisers […]. The sources add precision: Kalaushin was one of the two scholarly secretaries of the Leningrad exhibition…

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

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…exhibitions and his series of albums in which a writer’s life is told through portraits and illustrations […]. The principal publications:

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…Reserve gave him a watercolour of Pushkin’s study at Mikhailovskoye, in a mount bearing dozens of signatures […]. In the exhibition “The Keeper’s Study” at Mikhailovskoye (as described in 2002) his photograph has its…

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…Centenary of His Birth; for it his grandson wrote the biographical sketch quoted throughout this chapter […]. In Labinsk, on the initiative of local historians, a memorial plaque has been placed on No. 1 Khalturina…

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…from Pushkin House as an institution in its own right, he became its first director, serving until 1965 […]. His mother, Emiliya Fyodorovna (née Chirskova) […], had studied at a music college under the…

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…father knew many artists, Radlov and Khizhinsky among them, and more than once drew them into museum work […].

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…Firtich, wrote a biographical essay about his grandfather for the 2005 exhibition at Mikhailovskoye […]. A 1980 portrait of Boris Kalaushin on the family website is captioned as the work of the artist Nikolay…

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…the workshop’s pieces more than once won prizes and gold medals at the world exhibitions in Paris and London […]. Among the award lists found so far are four exhibitions with awards to Kalaushin masters: Tiflis (1889),…

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…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…

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“With the passage of time many historical realities fade,” Matvey Matveyevich’s grandson wrote in 2005 […]. This chronicle is an attempt to hold on to them.

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