The family map

the Khoper (river)

A tributary of the Don along which the Khoper Cossacks — Don Cossacks of the upper settlements — lived until the regiment moved to the Caucasus in 1777–1781.

Years

17th century – 1781

Coordinates

49.607° N, 42.309° E

In chapters

The Name, The Khoper

Azov

On 17 July 1696 Cossacks, the Khoper men among them, broke into Azov; the day became the seniority date of the Khoper Regiment and later of the whole Kuban Host.

Years

1696

Coordinates

47.100° N, 39.417° E

In chapters

The Khoper

Novokhopyorsk fortress

Novokhopyorsk

A fortress on the site of the ruined Pristansky settlement (built in 1716); in 1717 Khoper Cossacks and “Cherkasy” enrolled there — the core of the future Khoper Regiment, which set out from here for the Caucasus in 1777.

Years

1716–1777

Coordinates

51.100° N, 41.617° E

In chapters

The Name, The Khoper

Tsaritsyn

Volgograd

On 6 August 1777 the Khoper Regiment set out from here with the Vladimir Dragoons across the Kalmyk steppe for the Caucasus.

Years

1777

Coordinates

48.709° N, 44.515° E

In chapters

The Khoper

Rostov-on-Don

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Lyudmila Aleksandrovna (No. 142), Ivan Nikolayevich (No. 183), Ilya Andreyevich (No. 188).

Coordinates

47.222° N, 39.710° E

In chapters

The Caucasian Line, The Great Patriotic War

Voronezh

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Andrey Trofimovich (No. 6).

Coordinates

51.672° N, 39.211° E

In chapters

The Caucasian Line, At Court

Nekrasovka (khutor)

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Ilya Andreyevich (No. 188).

Coordinates

coordinates not established

In chapters

The Great Patriotic War

the Kalaus (river)

A steppe river, left tributary of the Western Manych, known to Russians since 1627. The Khoper Cossacks lived in its upper reaches, “by the heads of the Kalaus”, from 1777 to 1825. The family’s name “Kalaus steel” echoes this river.

Years

1627; 1777–1825

Coordinates

44.537° N, 42.617° E

In chapters

The Name, The Khoper, The Caucasian Line, The Workshop

Mozdok

The eastern end of the Azov–Mozdok Line; on 25 September 1777 the Khoper Cossacks reached Mozdok and set out from there for the line.

Years

1777

Coordinates

43.750° N, 44.650° E

In chapters

The Khoper

Severnaya (Aleksandrovskaya) fortress

Severnoye (village)

Founded on 18 October 1777 on the Chechera, a tributary of the Kalaus; one of the four stanitsas of the Khoper Regiment (1777–1826).

Years

1777–1826

Coordinates

44.832° N, 42.858° E

In chapters

The Name, The Khoper

Stavropolskaya stanitsa (Stavropol fortress)

Stavropol

Fortress No. 8, founded by Khoper Cossacks and dragoons on 22 October 1777; the regimental stanitsa of the Khoper Regiment. Here, in 1815, household no. 321 of Trofim Pakhomovich was recorded — the family’s earliest document; from here the family moved to Batalpashinskaya in 1826–1827.

Years

1777–1827

Coordinates

45.050° N, 41.983° E

In chapters

The Name, The Khoper, The Caucasian Line, Service and Crosses, Vyacheslav’s Line

Karantinnaya stanitsa

Suvorovskaya

The Karantinny post on the Kuma, to which most of the Stavropolskaya Cossacks (300 households of 441) moved in 1825–1827; the old Stavropol church was carried there in 1831.

Years

1825–1835

Coordinates

44.190° N, 42.659° E

In chapters

The Khoper, The Caucasian Line

Vorovskolesskaya stanitsa

Settlers from Vorovskolesskaya populated the northern part of Batalpashinskaya (1825).

Years

1825

Coordinates

44.367° N, 42.400° E

In chapters

The Khoper, The Caucasian Line

Pyatigorsk

Olga Savvichna, one of the family’s chief storytellers, lived here.

Years

20th century

Coordinates

44.033° N, 43.050° E

In chapters

The Chroniclers

Mineralnye Vody

In the spring of 1918, short of Mineralnye Vody, the Khoper Cossacks returning from Persia left the trains and rode home (the family’s account of Roman Vasilyevich).

Years

1918

Coordinates

44.201° N, 43.112° E

In chapters

The Upheaval

Vladikavkaz

Home of the Vladikavkaz “Koloushin” branch, descendants of Makar Grigoryevich; from here Nikolay Nikolayevich wrote in 1983 about the broken ties between the branches.

Years

19th century – present

Coordinates

43.040° N, 44.678° E

In chapters

The Name, The Great Patriotic War, The Chroniclers

Nalchik

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Lev Petrovich (No. 108), Lyudmila Aleksandrovna (No. 142).

Coordinates

43.483° N, 43.617° E

In chapters

Exile, The Great Patriotic War

Kislovodsk

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Anna Chuykina (No. 197).

Coordinates

43.910° N, 42.720° E

In chapters

The Upheaval

the Kuban (river)

The Khoper Cossacks moved to the Kuban in 1825–1827; Batalpashinskaya (Cherkessk) stands on its bank.

Years

1825 – present

Coordinates

43.461° N, 42.096° E

In chapters

The Khoper, The Caucasian Line

Batalpashinskaya stanitsa

Cherkessk

The Kalaushins’ home stanitsa from 1826–1827: headquarters of the 2nd Khoper Regiment, home of the saddlers’ workshops and of Fedot Alekseyevich’s workshop and shop on Sobornaya Street; here, as the family tells it, Pavel Aleksandrovich’s family escaped from a burning barn during the Revolution; here Fedot Alekseyevich was shot in 1920.

Years

1825 – present

Coordinates

44.222° N, 42.057° E

In chapters

The Name, The Khoper, The Caucasian Line, Service and Crosses, At Court, The Workshop, The Upheaval, The Great Patriotic War, The Chroniclers, Vyacheslav’s Line, Sources and Further Research

Ispravnaya stanitsa

Near Ispravnaya, on 17 May 1858, Uryadnik Stepan Alekseyevich helped repel a mountaineers’ raid — according to the roster, the action for which he received the Insignia of the Military Order.

Years

1858

Coordinates

44.069° N, 41.604° E

In chapters

The Caucasian Line, Service and Crosses

Psebay fortification

Psebay

Here, on 19 October 1859, the Khoper Cossacks recovered cattle taken by the mountaineers; the Cossack Stepan Kalaushin received the Insignia of the Military Order, 4th class.

Years

1859

Coordinates

44.109° N, 40.790° E

In chapters

The Caucasian Line, Service and Crosses

Labinskaya stanitsa

Labinsk

Founded in 1841–1842; here, in 1861, Alexander II asked: “Do you remember Kalaushin?” The stanitsa of Matvey, Mikhail and Aleksandr Alekseyevich, with the Kalaushins’ house, shop, workshops and garden; birthplace of the Pushkin scholar M.M. Kalaushin (memorial plaque at 1 Khalturina St).

Years

1841 – present

Coordinates

44.633° N, 40.733° E

In chapters

The Caucasian Line, At Court, The Workshop, The Upheaval, Exile, Pushkin House, The Chroniclers

The Kalaushin house (6 Krasnaya St, Labinsk)

The “Kalaushin house” of the 1890s is listed as a regional heritage site; the register does not say which of the brothers owned it. The family remembers Mikhail Alekseyevich’s two-storey mansion on Krasnaya Street, with a shop downstairs and a garden in the yard; the Labinsk museum tells visitors about “the house and shop of the Kalaushin brothers, Purveyors to the Imperial Court”.

Years

1890s – present

Coordinates

44.638° N, 40.721° E

In chapters

The Workshop, Sources and Further Research

Voznesenskaya stanitsa

At the exhibition held at the Voznesenskaya horticultural school in 1899 “Uryadnik Kalaushin” received a large silver medal for a Cossack saddle.

Years

1899

Coordinates

44.550° N, 41.025° E

In chapters

The Workshop

Maykop

The Maykop Military Crafts School, where Mikhail and Aleksandr Alekseyevich taught (1910, 1913).

Years

1909–1913

Coordinates

44.600° N, 40.083° E

In chapters

At Court, The Workshop

Khodz (aul)

From 1920 the schoolboy Matvey Matveyevich served as secretary of the revolutionary committee of the aul of Khodz (according to the family).

Years

1920

Coordinates

44.510° N, 40.714° E

In chapters

Exile, Pushkin House

Yekaterinodar

Krasnodar

Capital of the Kuban Host; in 1896 Matvey Alekseyevich is listed as “uryadnik, in Yekaterinodar”; the Kuban Exhibition of 1902 (silver medals for Mikhail and Fedot); here Grigory Vasilyevich was shot on 23 June 1931.

Years

1896–1931

Coordinates

45.033° N, 38.983° E

In chapters

The Workshop, The Upheaval, Sources and Further Research

Bekeshevskaya stanitsa

Home of the Bekeshevskaya branch: Roman Vasilyevich, father of the family chronicler, was born here; Darya Vasilyevna was killed here in the Civil War.

Years

1825 – present

Coordinates

44.111° N, 42.421° E

In chapters

The Upheaval, The Great Patriotic War, The Chroniclers

Zelenchukskaya stanitsa

Sergey Ivanovich headed the school here (1915–1916), and Vyacheslav (Vladislav) Savelyevich was born here (1918).

Years

1913–1918

Coordinates

43.850° N, 41.600° E

In chapters

The Great Patriotic War

Myskhako

Vladimir Alekseyevich (24 April) and Nikolay Sergeyevich (14 June) Kalaushin were killed here in 1943.

Years

1943

Coordinates

44.659° N, 37.763° E

In chapters

The Name, The Great Patriotic War

Armavir

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Matvey Alekseyevich (No. 71), Yefim Mikhailovich (No. 131), Boris Aleksandrovich (No. 138), Aleksey Yefimovich (No. 215).

Coordinates

45.000° N, 41.117° E

Gubskaya stanitsa

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Semyon Ilyich (No. 91), Nikolay Semyonovich (No. 165).

Coordinates

44.317° N, 40.633° E

In chapters

The Great Patriotic War

Shirvanskaya stanitsa

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Aleksandr Alekseyevich (No. 74), Lyudmila Aleksandrovna (No. 142).

Coordinates

44.372° N, 39.809° E

Storozhevaya stanitsa

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Savva Alekseyevich (No. 75), Aleksandra Savelyevna (No. 147).

Coordinates

43.872° N, 41.454° E

Sochi

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Mikhail Aleksandrovich (No. 141), Mariya Savelyevna (No. 148).

Coordinates

43.585° N, 39.720° E

Lazarevskoye

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Mariya Savelyevna (No. 148).

Coordinates

43.909° N, 39.331° E

Mikhaylovskaya stanitsa

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Dmitry Andreyevich (No. 29).

Coordinates

coordinates not established

Belomechetskaya stanitsa

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Savva Alekseyevich (No. 75).

Coordinates

44.418° N, 41.944° E

Urakovskaya

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Savva Alekseyevich (No. 75).

Coordinates

coordinates not established

Kurgakovskaya

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Savva Alekseyevich (No. 75).

Coordinates

coordinates not established

Khasaut-Grecheskoye

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Savva Alekseyevich (No. 75).

Coordinates

43.713° N, 41.667° E

Krivaya Balka

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Savva Alekseyevich (No. 75).

Coordinates

coordinates not established

Novolabinskaya stanitsa

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Semyon Ilyich (No. 91).

Coordinates

45.117° N, 39.883° E

In chapters

The Great Patriotic War

Kelermesskaya stanitsa

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Semyon Ilyich (No. 91).

Coordinates

44.785° N, 40.135° E

Novobekeshevskaya stanitsa

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Grigory Vasilyevich (No. 98).

Coordinates

coordinates not established

Kubina (aul)

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Roman Vasilyevich (No. 100).

Coordinates

44.058° N, 41.948° E

In chapters

The Upheaval

Nevinnomyssk

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Nikolay Ivanovich (No. 103).

Coordinates

44.633° N, 41.933° E

In chapters

Exile

Prochnookopskaya stanitsa

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Yefim Mikhailovich (No. 131).

Coordinates

45.067° N, 41.117° E

In chapters

The Upheaval

St Petersburg

The capital, to which the chamber Cossack Andrey Ivanovich went in 1853 and to which Fedot Alekseyevich brought the saddle for the Shah; the Convoy barracks at 28 Shpalernaya Street, where Boris Aleksandrovich was born in 1904; the Leningrad of Pushkin House, of the Siege and of Pyatoye Koleso; the birthplace of the chronicle’s author, Vyacheslav Olegovich, where his EdWay was launched in December 2017.

Years

1853 – present

Coordinates

59.950° N, 30.317° E

In chapters

The Caucasian Line, Service and Crosses, At Court, The Upheaval, The Great Patriotic War, Pushkin House, The Artist, The Chroniclers, Vyacheslav’s Line, Sources and Further Research

Gatchina

Under Alexander III the Convoy mounted guard in the Gatchina Palace; Fedot Alekseyevich began his Convoy service here (1892).

Years

1892–1894

Coordinates

59.568° N, 30.123° E

In chapters

Service and Crosses, At Court, The Workshop

Tsarskoye Selo

Pushkin

The Convoy’s main station under Nicholas II; farewell reviews of departing Convoy Cossacks and the Convoy centenary (1911); in 1949 the Pushkin museum in the Alexander Palace, in 2005 the Golden Pen ceremony in the Catherine Palace.

Years

1894 – 2005

Coordinates

59.717° N, 30.417° E

In chapters

Service and Crosses, At Court, Vyacheslav’s Line

The Alexander Palace

In front of the palace, on 31 May (13 June) 1900, the departing Convoy Cossacks were reviewed for the last time — △ the most likely day on which the Emperor examined the saddle for the Shah; here, on 10 June 1949, the first exhibition of the future All-Union Pushkin Museum opened.

Years

1900; 1949

Coordinates

59.721° N, 30.393° E

In chapters

Service and Crosses, At Court, The Workshop, Pushkin House, The Chroniclers, Vyacheslav’s Line

The Catherine Palace

On 18 May 1911 the Convoy’s jubilee standard was consecrated in front of the palace; on 25 March 2005 Oleg Vyacheslavovich received a special Golden Pen prize in its Throne Hall.

Years

1911; 2005

Coordinates

59.716° N, 30.396° E

In chapters

At Court, Vyacheslav’s Line

Krasnoye Selo

On 6 (19) July 1900 a parade was held on the Military Field in honour of Mozaffar ad-Din Shah.

Years

1900

Coordinates

59.736° N, 30.086° E

In chapters

At Court, The Workshop

Peterhof

The state dinner for the Shah in 1900; Nicholas II’s meeting with Mozaffar ad-Din Shah in August 1905, by which time Fedot Alekseyevich had left the Convoy.

Years

1900; 1905

Coordinates

59.883° N, 29.900° E

In chapters

At Court, The Workshop

Pushkin House

The Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences, where Matvey Matveyevich worked in the Literary Museum from 1931, headed it and in the Siege winter of 1941–1942 served as acting commandant.

Years

1931–1953

Coordinates

59.945° N, 30.301° E

In chapters

The Great Patriotic War, Pushkin House, The Artist

Pushkin Apartment Museum (12 Moika Embankment)

In 1934 Matvey Matveyevich reported on the new display of Pushkin’s last apartment; the library of the All-Union Pushkin Museum was housed in the Biron stables on the Moika; the exhibitions “Our First Director” (2004) and “Boris Kalaushin: From the Academy to Abstraction” (2015) were held here.

Years

1934–2015

Coordinates

59.941° N, 30.321° E

In chapters

Pushkin House, The Artist

Teriyoki

Zelenogorsk

From June 1940 Boris Aleksandrovich was a technician of the Teriyoki cinema administration.

Years

1940–1941

Coordinates

60.200° N, 29.700° E

In chapters

The Great Patriotic War

Izvara

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Boris Matveyevich (No. 213).

Coordinates

59.354° N, 29.516° E

In chapters

The Artist

Mikhailovskoye

The Pushkin Reserve, which Matvey Matveyevich oversaw on behalf of Pushkin House from 1934; in 1945, on his recommendation, S.S. Geychenko became its director, while fifteen-year-old Boris drew the ruined estate; in 2005 an exhibition for M.M. Kalaushin’s centenary was held here.

Years

1934–2005

Coordinates

57.061° N, 28.919° E

In chapters

The Great Patriotic War, Pushkin House, The Artist, The Chroniclers

Pskov

In April 1945 Geychenko travelled here with Boris Kalaushin; in the spring of 1949 M.M. Kalaushin spoke at the visiting Pushkin session.

Years

1945; 1949

Coordinates

57.817° N, 28.333° E

In chapters

The Great Patriotic War, Pushkin House, The Artist

Novgorod

Veliky Novgorod

Near Novgorod Boris Aleksandrovich went missing on 15 August 1941; from near Novgorod he had written to his wife on 30 July 1941.

Years

1941

Coordinates

58.521° N, 31.276° E

In chapters

The Great Patriotic War

Tiflis

Tbilisi

The Caucasus Exhibition of 1889 — the family’s earliest known award (“186. To Matvey Kalaushin — for a saddle and saddle straps”); the newspaper Kavkaz and the Caucasus Calendar were published here, and the staff of the Kuban Plastun Brigade (Nikita Ilyich) was stationed here.

Years

1889–1916

Coordinates

41.722° N, 44.792° E

In chapters

Service and Crosses, The Workshop, Pushkin House, The Artist

Kutais

Kutaisi

Aleksey Matveyevich was born here in 1894; the armourer Jalal Suleymanov lived here; on 16 May 1906 the Cossack Pavel Kalaushin (△ Pavel Aleksandrovich) was lightly wounded here.

Years

1894–1906

Coordinates

42.272° N, 42.706° E

In chapters

The Workshop, The Upheaval, Exile, Pushkin House, Vyacheslav’s Line

Sukhum

Sukhumi

Fedot Alekseyevich’s children lived here after 1920 and his wife died here; Aleksandr Alekseyevich died here in 1933.

Years

1920s – 1979

Coordinates

43.004° N, 41.019° E

In chapters

The Workshop, The Upheaval, The Great Patriotic War

Dayar

The battle of 9 June 1877: Uryadnik Yegor Afanasyevich and Prikazny Ilya Nikolayevich (“Koloushin”) received the Insignia of the Military Order, 4th class.

Years

1877

Coordinates

coordinates not established

In chapters

The Name, Service and Crosses

Zeydekyan

The fight of 16 June 1877: the non-combatants of the 2nd Khoper Regiment “under the command of Uryadnik Kalaushin” took a height on the right flank.

Years

1877

Coordinates

coordinates not established

In chapters

Service and Crosses

Baku

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Roman Vasilyevich (No. 100), Aleksey Yefimovich (No. 215).

Coordinates

40.367° N, 49.835° E

In chapters

Service and Crosses, The Upheaval

Karakurt (village)

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Aleksey Yefimovich (No. 215).

Coordinates

coordinates not established

In chapters

The Great Patriotic War

Geyuk-Voda

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Nikolay Ivanovich (No. 103).

Coordinates

coordinates not established

Tehran

Capital of Persia: Russia sent a special envoy to Ahmad Shah’s coronation in 1914; the Golestan Palace holds the treasury of gifts and the album with the photograph of the Shah “In St Petersburg, 1318” — places to look for traces of the saddle.

Years

1900; 1914

Coordinates

35.689° N, 51.390° E

In chapters

At Court, Sources and Further Research

Enzeli

Bandar-e Anzali

The Persian port from which the Khoper Cossacks sailed home across the Caspian in the spring of 1918.

Years

1918

Coordinates

37.473° N, 49.458° E

In chapters

The Upheaval

Petrovsk

Makhachkala

The port where the steamers carrying the Khoper Cossacks from Persia arrived in the spring of 1918; in the family’s account, “Baku (Makhachkala)”.

Years

1918

Coordinates

42.983° N, 47.505° E

In chapters

The Upheaval

Harbin

Aleksey Matveyevich died here in April 1941 and was buried in the New Uspensky Cemetery.

Years

1941

Coordinates

45.750° N, 126.633° E

In chapters

Exile

Constantinople

Istanbul

On 18 December 1920 Colonel Nikita Ilyich was entered on the list of refugees for the steamer Kherson.

Years

1920

Coordinates

41.010° N, 28.960° E

In chapters

The Upheaval, Exile

Lemnos

The camp of the Kuban Cossacks after the evacuation of the Crimea (1920–1921); the sotnik Nikolay Matveyevich was here.

Years

1920–1921

Coordinates

39.917° N, 25.250° E

In chapters

Exile

Šabac

On 20 September 1931 the Šabac Cossack stanitsa elected “Colonel Kalaushin” (△ Nikita Ilyich) to its audit commission.

Years

1931

Coordinates

44.756° N, 19.694° E

In chapters

Exile

Paris

The family remembered the workshop’s prizes and gold medals at the world exhibitions in Paris and London; at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 Cossack equipment was exhibited by the Main Directorate of Cossack Hosts. In the 1920s Nikolay and Aleksandr Matveyevich moved to France.

Years

1900; 1920s

Coordinates

48.857° N, 2.352° E

In chapters

The Workshop, Exile, Sources and Further Research

Manchuria

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Aleksey Matveyevich (No. 122), Aleksandr Matveyevich (No. 126).

Coordinates

45.000° N, 125.000° E

In chapters

Exile, Sources and Further Research

France

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Nikolay Matveyevich (No. 125), Boris Matveyevich (No. 213).

Coordinates

47.000° N, 2.000° E

In chapters

Exile, Sources and Further Research

Yugoslavia

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Nikolay Matveyevich (No. 125).

Coordinates

44.820° N, 20.427° E

In chapters

Exile, Sources and Further Research

Nizhny Novgorod

The 16th All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition of 1896: a bronze medal for Fedot and Mikhail Alekseyevich and an honourable mention for Matvey Alekseyevich.

Years

1896

Coordinates

56.327° N, 44.008° E

In chapters

Service and Crosses, At Court, The Workshop, The Artist

Kursk

In 1902 Mozaffar ad-Din Shah met Nicholas II at the manoeuvres near Kursk — a meeting that fits the family’s account of the saddle less well than 1900.

Years

1902

Coordinates

51.737° N, 36.187° E

In chapters

At Court, The Workshop

Kazan

On 7 August 1918 the General Staff Academy, where Aleksey Matveyevich was a student, went over to the Whites here.

Years

1918

Coordinates

55.791° N, 49.114° E

In chapters

Exile

Samara

In August 1918 Aleksey Matveyevich was posted to the staff of the People’s Army in Samara.

Years

1918

Coordinates

53.183° N, 50.117° E

In chapters

Exile

Verkhneudinsk

Ulan-Ude

On 16 February 1920 Aleksey Matveyevich was made a colonel here.

Years

1920

Coordinates

51.827° N, 107.606° E

In chapters

Exile

Chita

From March 1920 Aleksey Matveyevich served in Chita, on the staff of the Far Eastern Army.

Years

1920

Coordinates

52.033° N, 113.501° E

In chapters

Exile

Vladivostok

Primorye in 1922: Aleksey Matveyevich was chief of staff of the border guard of the Zemskaya Rat; in the autumn the White units left for abroad.

Years

1922

Coordinates

43.115° N, 131.885° E

In chapters

Exile

Kustanai

Kostanay

Nikolay Pavlovich was called up from here in July 1941; in 1938 Ivan Pavlovich Kalaushin was arrested in Kustanai Oblast.

Years

1938–1941

Coordinates

53.214° N, 63.625° E

In chapters

The Upheaval, The Great Patriotic War

Tashkent

In July 1942 Matvey Matveyevich escorted a train with the most valuable museum materials here; in evacuation Boris made his booklets here.

Years

1942

Coordinates

41.311° N, 69.280° E

In chapters

The Great Patriotic War, Pushkin House, The Artist

Ryazan

Ryazan Bakery No. 3 — the subject of Mikhail Pavlovich’s brochure (1965).

Years

1965

Coordinates

54.630° N, 39.742° E

In chapters

Vyacheslav’s Line

Moscow

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Fedot Alekseyevich (No. 73), Mikhail Pavlovich (No. 117), Boris Matveyevich (No. 213). Early in 2018 the chronicle’s author, Vyacheslav Olegovich, moved here (◇ in his own words).

Coordinates

55.751° N, 37.617° E

In chapters

The Name, The Great Patriotic War, Pushkin House, The Artist, Vyacheslav’s Line

Novosibirsk

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Valentina Matveyevna (No. 124).

Coordinates

55.033° N, 82.917° E

In chapters

The Great Patriotic War

Chelkar

Shalkar

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Nikolay Fedotovich (No. 134).

Coordinates

47.833° N, 59.600° E

Odessa

Odesa

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Mariya Aleksandrovna (No. 140).

Coordinates

46.477° N, 30.733° E

In chapters

Pushkin House

Omsk

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Raisa Savelyevna (No. 144).

Coordinates

54.967° N, 73.383° E

In chapters

The Name, Exile

Kiev

Kyiv

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Vyacheslav Savelyevich (No. 150).

Coordinates

50.450° N, 30.524° E

In chapters

The Great Patriotic War

Chimkent

Shymkent

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich (No. 202), the grandfather of the chronicle’s author, was born here in 1943, and here he met Galina; their son is Oleg Vyacheslavovich (◇ family testimony). In 1943 it was Chimkent in the Kazakh SSR; today Shymkent.

Years

1943

Coordinates

42.342° N, 69.590° E

In chapters

Vyacheslav’s Line

Berlin

The order awarding Roman Vasilyevich was signed here on 21 July 1945; according to the roster, Ivan Nikolayevich Koloushin took part in the capture of Berlin.

Years

1945

Coordinates

52.517° N, 13.383° E

In chapters

The Great Patriotic War

Vienna

In August 1896 Archduke Franz Ferdinand met Nicholas II here in the uniform of his Russian regiment; the State Archives (HHStA) are where papers on the Kalaushins’ parade commission should be sought.

Years

1896; 1910–1914

Coordinates

48.208° N, 16.372° E

In chapters

The Workshop, Sources and Further Research

Konopiště

Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s castle: the inventory of its arms collection (1915) is the main place to look for the parade set made by Matvey and Fedot Alekseyevich.

Years

1910–1915

Coordinates

49.779° N, 14.657° E

In chapters

The Workshop, The Chroniclers, Sources and Further Research

London

The family remembered the workshop’s prizes at world exhibitions in London; they should be sought in the reports of the Russian sections of the 1862 and 1909 exhibitions.

Years

19th–20th centuries

Coordinates

51.507° N, 0.128° W

In chapters

The Workshop, Sources and Further Research

the United States

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Matvey Matveyevich (No. 127), Boris Matveyevich (No. 213).

Coordinates

39.828° N, 98.579° W

In chapters

Exile, The Artist

Hungary

Named in the entries of A.B. Kalaushin’s roster (◈): Fyodor Panteleymonovich (No. 190).

Coordinates

47.000° N, 19.000° E

In chapters

The Great Patriotic War

Dubai

The chronicle’s author, Vyacheslav Olegovich, moved here from Moscow before settling in Abu Dhabi (◇ in his own words); home of Drive Your Dream, for which the Data Nexus team built a website and a CRM (2026).

Years

after early 2018

Coordinates

25.270° N, 55.309° E

In chapters

Vyacheslav’s Line

Abu Dhabi

Home of the chronicle’s author, Vyacheslav Olegovich, founder of Data Nexus (◇ in his own words); the company’s office is in Etihad Towers.

Years

the present

Coordinates

24.451° N, 54.397° E

In chapters

Vyacheslav’s Line