Year · The Kuban, the Convoy and the workshop
1903 in the Kalaushin family history
The year’s events, people, awards, documents and works — from the chronicle and its sources.
Events
30 September 1903
“Kalaus steel”
◇ family testimony
The family told how Matvey Alekseyevich obtained Damascus steel — through Suleymanov, father of Lyubov Jelalovna Geychenko — and re-tempered it himself, and how daggers “of Kalaus steel” were highly prized in the Caucasus; in support the family cited the words of the Arabist historian Leonid Lavrov.
△ hypothesis · on the name
“Kalaus steel” is the family’s own name for the steel of the Kalaushin masters, most likely “kalaushinskaya”, the Kalaushins’ steel: in the Caucasus imported Damascus blade steel, re-forged and specially tempered by a renowned master, was called by his name — “Bazalay steel”, “Chilli buolat”. The word also echoes the Kalaus River, in whose upper reaches the Khoper Cossacks lived from 1777 to 1825.
- ◈ Astvatsaturyan 1995, PDF p. 58
- ◆ Tolstov 1900, pt 1, ch. 2
- ◇ Roster, No. 71
6. The Workshop1. The Name2. The Khoper3. The Caucasian Line10. Pushkin House12. The Chroniclers14. Sources and Further Research
People of the year4
- Stepan Yegorovich (Georgiyevich) Kalaushin △ 26 April 1868 – 1915 award second cousin five times removed
- Nikolay Dmitriyevich Kalaushin b. 1903 born second cousin five times removed
- Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin 1867 – 1912 took part in events first cousin four times removed
- Fyodor Ilyich Kalaushin d. 1903 died second cousin three times removed
Awards
- Order of St StanislausStepan Yegorovich◆ documented
Documents and photographs3
Batalpashinsk town schoolPastVu (pastvu.com/p/969653); original source: cherkessk.su 
◆ Parish register, 1903: the maiden Stefanida Antonovna KoloushinaState Archive of Karachay-Cherkessia, f. 9, op. 1, d. 18; scan: Yandex "Search in archives" 
◆ Register of the Alexander church, Maykop, 1903: uryadnik Mikhail Alekseevich Kalaushin as godfather at a baptismNational Archive of the Republic of Adygea, f. 77, op. 1-l, d. 50; scan: Yandex "Search in archives"
Chapters of the period
- 1. The Name17th century – present
- 4. Service and Crosses1810–1917
- 5. At Court1853–1911
- 6. The Workshop1840s–1931
- 13. Vyacheslav’s Linec. 1737 – the present
- 14. Sources and Further Research1737–2026