Year · The Kuban, the Convoy and the workshop

1915 in the Kalaushin family history

The year’s events, people, awards, documents and works — from the chronicle and its sources.

Events3

17 March 1915

Yesaul Stepan Yegorovich

◆ documented

On 17 March 1915 Podyesaul Stepan Yegorovich of the 2nd Khoper Regiment received the Order of St Vladimir, 4th class with swords and bow, and in May, by then a yesaul, the Order of St Anna, 2nd class with swords. He was killed in 1915: in the summer Russkoye Slovo listed him among those who had died of wounds, and an order of 1916 struck him off the rolls as killed in action.

Stepan Yegorovich △ 26 April 1868 – 1915

◆ Podesaul Stepan Kalaushin — Order of St Vladimir, 4th class with swords and bow (17 Mar 1915)Scan: Internet Archive (archive.org); Imperial orders on military ranks
◆ Esaul Stepan Kalaushin struck off the rolls as died of wounds (July 1916)Scan: Internet Archive (archive.org); Imperial orders on military ranks

◆ Imperial Order 17.03.1915
◈ Imperial Order 21.05.1915, via Razvedchik, no. 1291
◆ Russkoye Slovo, no. 174, 29.07.1915
◆ Imperial Order, July 1916

4. Service and Crosses

9 June 1915

Yefim Mikhailovich, yesaul for distinction

◆ documented

On 9 June 1915 Yefim (Yevfimy) Mikhailovich, fighting the Turks with the 1st Kuban Regiment, was promoted to yesaul for distinction in action; in 1916 he became voyskovoy starshina, and by 1 January 1917 he was assistant regimental commander. In the spring of 1915 he received the Order of St Anna, 4th class “for bravery”.

Yefim Mikhailovich 25 December 1877 – 1920

◆ "Kavkaz", 1915, No. 144: Efim Kalaushin promoted to esaul"Kavkaz" newspaper (Tiflis); digitised by the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, via Wikimedia Commons
◆ Esaul Efim Kalaushin — Order of St Anna, 4th class "For Bravery" (19 Oct 1915)Scan: Internet Archive (archive.org); Imperial orders on military ranks

◆ Kavkaz, no. 144, 26.06.1915, p. 1
◆ Kavkaz, no. 72, 1915, p. 2
◆ Imperial Order 19.10.1915
◈ 1st Kuban Regiment as of 1.01.1917, via ria1914.info

4. Service and Crosses

1915

The List of Purveyors to the Imperial Court

◈ published source

The List of Purveyors to the Imperial Court, compiled at the beginning of 1915, includes among 1,340 firms and persons “the saddle-maker Fedot Kalaushin of Batalpashinskaya stanitsa”. The family also remembers the title for Matvey Alekseyevich.

Note on the roster: in retelling this passage the roster has “40 firms and persons” — a slip; the List contains 1,340.

◈ Zimin 2013
◇ Roster, No. 71

6. The Workshop 5. At Court 7. The Upheaval 12. The Chroniclers 13. Vyacheslav’s Line 14. Sources and Further Research

People of the year6

Afanasy Yegorovich (Georgiyevich) Kalaushin 6 July 1864 – 1915 (according to the roster) died second cousin five times removed
Stepan Yegorovich (Georgiyevich) Kalaushin △ 26 April 1868 – 1915 died, took part in events, award second cousin five times removed
Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin 1867 – 1912 took part in events first cousin four times removed
Fedot Alekseyevich Kalaushin 1871 – 1920 took part in events first cousin four times removed
Vyacheslav Pavlovich Kalaushin 1915 – in the Civil War (◇) born brother of the great-grandfather
Yefim (Yevfimy) Mikhailovich Kalaushin 25 December 1877 – 1920 took part in events, award