1945 in the Kalaushin family history

12 April 1945

A fifteen-year-old artist at Mikhailovskoye

◈ published source

On 12 April 1945 fifteen-year-old Boris Kalaushin set out for Pskov with S.S. Geychenko — “the future artist, who was going with me to sketch the ruined Pushkin monuments”, as Geychenko recalled. On 16 May Boris finished a draft plan of the Petrovskoye park, with its minefield and dugouts, and drew “Nanny’s Cottage” in pencil.

• Boris Matveyevich 6 August 1929 – 10 June 1999
• Pskov

• ◈ Geychenko 1986, p. 179
• ◈ Mikhailovskaya Pushkiniana 83, p. 177
• ◈ Pushkinsky ugolok, no. 2 (13), 2015, p. 3

11. The Artist9. The Great Patriotic War10. Pushkin House

15 April 1945

Geychenko becomes director of the Reserve

◈ published source

By Order No. 59 of the Institute of Literature of 15 April 1945 S.S. Geychenko was appointed director of the Pushkin Reserve. “More than anyone, Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin pressed for my being sent to the Reserve,” Geychenko recalled.

Note on the roster: the roster says that Matvey Matveyevich “handed the post over” to Geychenko; in the documents Matvey Matveyevich is never called director of the Reserve — from 1934 he oversaw it on behalf of Pushkin House and recommended Geychenko as director.

• Matvey Matveyevich 23 July (5 August) 1904 – 10 December 1968
• Mikhailovskoye

• ◈ Mikhailovskaya Pushkiniana 19, p. 204
• ◈ Geychenko 1986, p. 176

10. Pushkin House9. The Great Patriotic War11. The Artist12. The Chroniclers13. Vyacheslav’s Line

21 July 1945

A Cossack with his horses

◆ documented

By an order signed in Berlin on 21 July 1945, Private Roman Vasilyevich Kalaushin of an army trophy depot, called up at the age of forty-six in November 1941, received the Medal “For Combat Service”: “he keeps the horses entrusted to him in excellent condition”.

• Roman Vasilyevich 14 October 1895 – 1983
• Berlin

• ◆ TsAMO, f. 33, op. 690306, d. 2689, Podvig Naroda, id 42654515

9. The Great Patriotic War12. The Chroniclers

13 September 1945

A medal for the driver Kalaushin

◆ documented

Lance Corporal Nikolay Pavlovich, a driver with the guard company of the staff of the 15th Army, 2nd Far Eastern Front, received the Medal “For Combat Service”: “during the fighting against the Japanese imperialists driver Kalaushin drove his vehicle over roadless country knowing neither difficulty nor fatigue”.

• Nikolay Pavlovich 1911 – 1987

• ◆ TsAMO, f. 33, op. 686196, d. 6291, Podvig Naroda, id 29982103

9. The Great Patriotic War13. Vyacheslav’s Line