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1920 in the Kalaushin family history

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

Events4

16 February 1920

Colonel Aleksey Matveyevich

◈ published source

On 16 February 1920, at Verkhneudinsk, Aleksey Matveyevich was made a colonel by Order No. 24 of the 3rd Army; from March 1920 he served in Chita, on the staff of the Far Eastern Army.

  • ◈ Roster, No. 122

8. Exile

1920

The death of Fedot Alekseyevich

◈ published source

Under the Whites Fedot Alekseyevich was again stanitsa ataman of Batalpashinskaya. In 1920 he was “shot by the Bolsheviks as a hostage in Batalpashinskaya by order of the special plenipotentiary of the Revolutionary Military Council of the 9th Army”; S.V. Volkov’s database dates his death to 1921. The family remembered him as “a man of kind soul”.

  • ◈ Roster, No. 73, citing Batalpashinskaya Pravda, 1920, no. 27
  • ◈ Volkov database, vol. “K”
  • ◇ Roster, No. 73

7. The Upheaval6. The Workshop13. Vyacheslav’s Line

1920

Secretary of the revolutionary committee at Khodz

◇ family testimony

From 1920, “from the moment Soviet power was established in the North Caucasus”, Matvey Matveyevich, still a schoolboy, served as secretary of the revolutionary committee of the aul of Khodz — so his grandson writes, and so the roster records. His three elder brothers, Aleksey, Nikolay and Aleksandr, went into emigration with the Whites in the same years.

  • ◇ N.G. Firtich’s essay, museum.ru, N20942, 2005
  • ◇ Roster, No. 127
  • ◈ Roster, No. 71

8. Exile10. Pushkin House

18 December 1920

Constantinople: the list for the steamer Kherson

◆ documented

The “Name list of refugees to be sent on the steamer Kherson, 18 December 1920 (if places are available)” includes “Kalaushin Nikita Ilyich — Colonel — 43”. Whether he sailed on the ship is not yet known.

Note on the roster: the roster has “Colonel from 18 December 1920”; the date belongs to the list for the steamer, and the date of his promotion to colonel is not yet known.

  • ◆ GARF, f. R-5982, op. 1, d. 57, as published in Glavnoye spravochnoye byuro v Konstantinopole, no. 3, 2022, p. 21

8. Exile7. The Upheaval

People of the year13

Documents and photographs2

Chapters of the period