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Aleksey Matveyevich Kalaushin
Алексей Матвеевич Калаушин1894 – April 1941

Born 1894 in Kutais, an officer of the 3rd Khoper Regiment from 1914, a student of the General Staff Academy (1918) and a colonel (1920); in 1922 chief of staff of the border guard of the Zemskaya Rat. An émigré in China and Manchuria, he died in Harbin in April 1941.
Traits of the house
Relation to the author
second cousin of the author’s great-grandfather
Path through the generations
Family tree
Family
- Father
- Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin 1867 – 1912
- father’s wife
- Pelageya Yemelyanovna Kalaushina (née Podlobkova)
- Brothers and sisters
- Anna Matveyevna Funder (née Kalaushina) b. before 1890
- Yuliya Matveyevna Kalaushina 1890 – before 1944
- Nikolay Matveyevich Kalaushin b. c. 1894
- Aleksandr Matveyevich Kalaushin 1896 – 1953
- Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin 23 July (5 August) 1904 – 10 December 1968
- Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin (the elder) d. date of death unknown
- Valentina Matveyevna Pashchenko (née Kalaushina) d. 1974
- Pelageya Matveyevna Kalaushina
- Child of Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin (name not recorded)
- Child of Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin (name not recorded)
Life events18
◈ published sourceKutais
Aleksey Matveyevich is commissioned
◆ documented
the Yelisavetgrad Cavalry School: ends
◆ documented
Award: Order of St Anna, 3rd class
◈ published source
Award: Order of St Anna, 4th class
◈ published source
Award: Order of St Anna, 2nd class
◈ published source
Award: Order of St Stanislaus, 3rd class
◈ published source
Award: Order of St Stanislaus, 2nd class
◆ documented
the General Staff Academy: begins (student of the accelerated courses)
◈ published source
“At the disposal of Colonel Kappel”
◆ documentedKazan
the General Staff Academy: ends
◈ published source
◈ published sourceVerkhneudinsk
Secretary of the revolutionary committee at Khodz
◇ family testimonyKhodz (aul)
◈ published sourceVladivostok
Service ends: the Zemskaya Rat (Zemstvo Host)
◈ published source
◈ published sourceHarbin
Places10
- Harbinnamed in the roster entry · events 1941 · died 1941
- Kutaisborn 1894 · named in the roster entry · events 1894
- Vladivostokservice 1922 · events 1922
- Chitanamed in the roster entry
- Kazanevents 1918
- Khodz (aul)events 1920
- Labinskaya stanitsanamed in the roster entry
- Manchurianamed in the roster entry
- Samaranamed in the roster entry
- Verkhneudinsknamed in the roster entry · events 1920
Documents and photographs8

◆ Sotnik Aleksei Kalaushin — Order of St Stanislaus, 2nd class with swords (17 Jun 1916)Scan: Internet Archive (archive.org); Imperial orders on military ranks 
◆ "Kavkaz" newspaper, 1915, No. 131, p. 1 (full page): Khorunzhy Aleksei Matveevich Kalaushin among the shell-shocked"Kavkaz" newspaper (Tiflis); digitised by the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, via Wikimedia Commons 
◆ "Kavkaz", 1915, No. 131: Khorunzhy Aleksei Matveevich Kalaushin among the shell-shocked"Kavkaz" newspaper (Tiflis); digitised by the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, via Wikimedia Commons 
◆ "Kavkaz" newspaper, 1916, No. 136, p. 1 (full page): Sotnik Aleksei Kalaushin in an awards list"Kavkaz" newspaper (Tiflis); digitised by the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, via Wikimedia Commons 
◆ "Kavkaz", 1916, No. 136: Sotnik Aleksei Kalaushin in an awards list"Kavkaz" newspaper (Tiflis); digitised by the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, via Wikimedia Commons 
Khorunzhy Aleksei Matveevich Kalaushin, 1915 (Ogonyok)1915 publication; copy from the site "Officers of the Russian Imperial Army" (ria1914.info) 
Aleksei Matveevich Kalaushin — portrait from a magazine photo-collage (no. 20)1915 publication; copy from the site "Officers of the Russian Imperial Army" (ria1914.info) 
Khorunzhy Aleksei Matveevich Kalaushin in a cherkeska with gazyri, 1915 (magazine clipping)1915 publication; copy from the site "Officers of the Russian Imperial Army" (ria1914.info)
Awards5
| Awards | Date | For | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Order of St Anna, 3rd class | 1916 | the 3rd Khoper Regiment | ◈ published source S152 |
| Order of St Anna, 4th class | 1916 | the 3rd Khoper Regiment | ◈ published source S152 |
| Order of St Anna, 2nd class | 1916 | the 3rd Khoper Regiment | ◈ published source S152 |
| Order of St Stanislaus, 3rd class | 1916 | the 3rd Khoper Regiment | ◈ published source S152 |
| Order of St Stanislaus, 2nd class | 1916-06-17 | the 3rd Khoper Regiment | ◆ documented |
Service and institutions4
- the Yelisavetgrad Cavalry Schoolcadet1914◆ documented
- the 3rd Khoper Regimentkhorunzhy, officer1914-10-01◆ documented
- the General Staff Academystudent of the accelerated courses1917-11–1918◈ published source
- the Zemskaya Rat (Zemstvo Host)chief of staff of the border guard1922–1922◈ published source
In the chronicle
- …the 3rd Khoper Regiment had two Kalaushin officers, Sotnik (Cossack lieutenant) Aleksey Matveyevich and Praporshchik (ensign) Semyon Ilyich…
- …of Matvey Alekseyevich — Aleksey, Nikolay and Aleksandr — also went abroad with the Whites; their later lives are a story of their own. Aleksandr Alekseyevich, according to a collector’s caption to…
- Aleksey Matveyevich was born, according to the roster, in 1894 at Kutais (Kutaisi). He finished the Labinskaya…
- …the third intake of the Academy of the General Staff, and in the summer and autumn of 1918 its senior course. A single line in A.V. Ganin’s reference book captures the turning point of that year: “Courses, 3rd intake,…
- …of the People’s Army, and from October to December he was assistant chief of staff of the Samara Brigade. The same post appears in the list of General Staff officers on the Eastern Front as of 24 February 1919:…
14. Sources and Further Research
- …Bureau of Russian Émigrés in Manchuria (BREM); △ this is probably the questionnaire of Aleksey Matveyevich, who lived in emigration in Manchuria.
- …Aleksey Matveyevich was born in Kutais, and the families of Fedot and Aleksandr Alekseyevich lived in Sukhum; émigré collections — the Hoover Institution, the Museum of Russian History at Jordanville, the Kuban…
Sources
- ◆ Imperial Order 1.10.1914, via ria1914.info
- ◆ Ganin 2009, Doc. 6, p. 512
- ◈ Ganin 2023, vol. 2, p. 677
- ◈ Roster, No. 122
Sources by key
- S001A.B. Kalaushin’s roster Kalaushiny (philippov.spb.ru, version 03.02 of 13 July 2025)
- S036Kavkaz newspaper (Tiflis)
- S045Imperial Orders (Vysochayshiye prikazy)
- S066Officer lists of the 3rd Khoper Regiment (10.1916 and 14.06.1917)
- S098A.V. Ganin, Kadry Generalnogo shtaba v period Grazhdanskoy voyny v Rossii 1917–1922 gg., vol. 2 (Moscow, 2023)
- S099A.V. Ganin, Korpus ofitserov Generalnogo shtaba v gody Grazhdanskoy voyny 1917–1922 gg. (Moscow, 2009)
- S152ria1914.info
- S162S.V. Volkov, database Uchastniki Belogo dvizheniya v Rossii, vol. “K”