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Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin
Матвей Матвеевич Калаушин23 July (5 August) 1904 – 10 December 1968
Pushkin scholar and museum-maker: head of the Literary Museum of Pushkin House and, during the Siege, acting commandant of the institute; from 1934 he oversaw the Pushkin Reserve on behalf of Pushkin House and in 1945 recommended S.S. Geychenko as its director. On 10 June 1949 he took part in opening the museum in the Alexander Palace, and in 1953–1965 he was the first director of the All-Union Pushkin Museum.
Traits of the house
As written in documents
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- Матвей Матвеевич Калаушин (второй)
- Roster entry No. 127.71
Relation to the author
second cousin of the author’s great-grandfather
Path through the generations
Family tree
Anna Matveyevnab. before 1890Yuliya Matveyevna1890 – before 1944Aleksey Matveyevich1894 – April 1941Nikolay Matveyevichb. c. 1894Aleksandr Matveyevich1896 – 1953Matvey Matveyevich23 July (5 August) 1904 – 10 December 1968Emiliya FyodorovnaMatvey Matveyevichd. date of death unknown
GrandchildrenNikolay Georgiyevich
Family
- Father
- Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin 1867 – 1912
- Brothers and sisters
- Anna Matveyevna Funder (née Kalaushina) b. before 1890
- Yuliya Matveyevna Kalaushina 1890 – before 1944
- Aleksey Matveyevich Kalaushin 1894 – April 1941
- Nikolay Matveyevich Kalaushin b. c. 1894
- Aleksandr Matveyevich Kalaushin 1896 – 1953
- 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)
- Children
- Boris Matveyevich Kalaushin 6 August 1929 – 10 June 1999
- Yuliya Matveyevna Firtich (née Kalaushina) b. 1939
- Grandchildren
- 1 — in the tree
Life events57
Secretary of the revolutionary committee at Khodz
◇ family testimonyKhodz (aul)
Leningrad University: begins (student)
◈ published source
◇ family testimonySt Petersburg
1926
◈ published source
Birth of Boris Matveyevich Kalaushin
◈ published sourceSt Petersburg
Award: Rank of research fellow, first class, and of dotsent
◈ published source
◆ documentedMikhailovskoye
1936
1936–1946
1939
1940
◈ published sourcePushkin House
Mikhailovskoye after liberation
◆ documentedMikhailovskoye
Geychenko becomes director of the Reserve
◈ published sourceMikhailovskoye
◈ published sourceSt Petersburg
1947-05
1948
The Pushkin museum in the Alexander Palace
◈ published sourceThe Alexander Palace
The house museum at Mikhailovskoye
◆ documentedMikhailovskoye
1950
1951
1951од
1951–1958
1951; 1954
the All-Russian Pushkin Museum: begins (first director)
◈ published source
1954; 1962
1955
1955–1963
The Pushkin monument on Arts Square
◆ documentedSt Petersburg
1958-03-27
1962
1963
1963
1963-02-10
the All-Russian Pushkin Museum: ends
◈ published source
◈ published sourceSt Petersburg
◈ published sourcePushkin Apartment Museum (12 Moika Embankment)
The exhibition for M.M. Kalaushin’s centenary
◈ published sourceMikhailovskoye
Places8
- Labinskaya stanitsaborn 1904 · named in the roster entry · events 1904
- Mikhailovskoyenamed in the roster entry · work 1934 · events 1934, 1935, 1944, 1945, 1949, 2005
- Pushkin Apartment Museum (12 Moika Embankment)work 1953–1965 · events 1953–2004
- Pushkin Housework · events 1941
- St Petersburgnamed in the roster entry · study 1923–1926 · events 1923, 1929, 1937, 1946, 1957, 1968 · died 1968
- Khodz (aul)named in the roster entry · events 1920
- The Alexander Palaceevents 1949
- the United Statesnamed in the roster entry
Documents and photographs6
◆ Telegram from Pushkinskiye Gory "IRLI Kalaushin" on the collapse of the Svyatogorsk cathedral belfry, 1934St Petersburg branch of the RAS Archive; publ.: Mikhailovskaya Pushkiniana, issue 112 
◆ Leningradskaya Pravda, 15 July 1944: a Chekhov album compiled by M. M. KalaushinNational Library of Russia, Vivaldi digital library - Card: the image is not publishedM. M. Kalaushin, S. S. Geichenko and S. I. Vavilov on the opening day of the All-Union Pushkin Museum, 1949Publ.: Mikhailovskaya Pushkiniana, issue 26; Mikhailovskoye Museum ReserveView at the rights holder ↗
- Card: the image is not publishedM. M. Kalaushin with his family at Mikhailovskoye, 1949"Museums of Russia" (museum.ru), Mikhailovskoye Museum exhibition, 2005View at the rights holder ↗
- Card: the image is not publishedMatvei Matveevich Kalaushin (1904–1968), portrait"Museums of Russia" (museum.ru), Mikhailovskoye Museum exhibition, 2005View at the rights holder ↗
- Card: the image is not publishedPushkin's study at Mikhailovskoye — a watercolour given to M. M. Kalaushin for his 60th birthday, 1964"Museums of Russia" (museum.ru), Mikhailovskoye Museum exhibition, 2005View at the rights holder ↗
Works and objects34
Awards
| Awards | Date | For | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank of research fellow, first class, and of dotsent | 1931 | Pushkin House (Institute of Russian Literature) | ◈ published source S001 |
Service and institutions4
- Leningrad Universitystudent1923–1926◈ published source
- Pushkin House (Institute of Russian Literature)head of the Literary Museum◈ published source
- the Pushkin Reserve (Mikhailovskoye)curator on behalf of Pushkin House1934◈ published source
- the All-Russian Pushkin Museumfirst director1953–1965◈ published source
In the chronicle
- …. Here in 1904 Matvey Alekseyevich’s son Matvey was born, the future Pushkin scholar M.M. Kalaushin. In 1910 Matvey Alekseyevich chaired the stanitsa’s Second…
- …. House No. 1 on Khalturina Street, where M.M. Kalaushin’s family lived, now carries a memorial plaque, put up at the initiative of the Labinsk local historian G.A.…
- Boris Aleksandrovich’s cousin, Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin, was head of the museum of Pushkin House — the Institute of Russian Literature of the USSR Academy of…
- In the Siege winter of 1941–1942 Matvey Matveyevich acted as commandant of Pushkin House. According to the recollections of a member of the Institute’s staff,…
- Matvey Matveyevich’s family spent the first years of the Siege in Leningrad. His son, Boris Matveyevich…
- …village) became one of the people who built Leningrad’s literary museums. Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin worked for more than twenty years in the museum of Pushkin House — the Institute of Literature of the…
- Matvey Matveyevich was born on 23 July 1904 Old Style (5 August New Style) in the stanitsa of Labinskaya in Kuban Oblast, now…
- …on motylyok, ‘little moth’. The household lived by the motto “No feeling is holier than friendship”, and Matvey Matveyevich, his grandson writes, kept to it all his life. The family recalled that his father “held the status of…
- …different craft. Boris Matveyevich Kalaushin, son of the Pushkin scholar Matvey Matveyevich, became a book artist and a painter: he illustrated more than a hundred children’s books, painted all his…
- …. His mother, Emiliya Fyodorovna (née Chirskova), had studied at a music college under the well-known musician Sergey Alpers, a friend of Sergey Prokofiev.…
- …by Shvede-Radlova and watercolours by Khizhinsky were bought and commissioned for the Reserve’s museum. Matvey Matveyevich himself wrote about this. Boris turned six that summer. His father knew many artists,…
- …the common work. Boris Matveyevich Kalaushin was an artist, the son of the Pushkin scholar Matvey Matveyevich. Olga Savvichna — Olga Savelyevna Veber, née Kalaushina (b. 1897) — was the daughter of the schoolteacher…
- Emiliya Fyodorovna, wife of Matvey Matveyevich, told the compiler that Aleksey Nikolayevich came to Batalpashinskaya stanitsa as a young man, and that…
- …in 1945, and on 10 June 1949 Matvey Matveyevich opened the All-Union Pushkin Museum in the Alexander Palace.
- …teacher Savva and of their sister Anna; his grandson was the Pushkin scholar Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin. The author’s line runs through another son, Aleksandr Nikolayevich.
- Mikhail Pavlovich’s second cousin, Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin, looked after the Pushkin Reserve on behalf of Pushkin House from 1934; on his recommendation Semyon…
14. Sources and Further Research
- …letters of the St Petersburg branch: a letter of 1968 from Emiliya Fyodorovna, wife of Matvey Matveyevich, to Yu.G. Oksman (f. 2567, op. 1, item 541); Matvey Matveyevich’s letters of 1956 and 1959 to T.G.…
- …of B.A. Kalaushin, 1926–1929, which the roster cites as “GIA SPb, op. 10”; the file of Matvey Matveyevich, who studied at the university in 1923–1926, may also be here.
- …Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, f. 150 (Institute of Russian Literature): the place to look for M.M. Kalaushin’s personal file (1931–1953); here too is the correspondence on the Pushkin Reserve, including a telegram of…
Sources
- ◈ Mikhailovskaya Pushkiniana 19, pp. 196, 204
- ◈ Geychenko 1986, p. 176
- ◈ Mikhailovskaya Pushkiniana 26, p. 36
- ◈ museumpushkin.ru, “140 years of the first Pushkin museum”
Sources by key
- S001A.B. Kalaushin’s roster Kalaushiny (philippov.spb.ru, version 03.02 of 13 July 2025)
- S004N.G. Firtich, “Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin: on the centenary of his birth” (museum.ru, N20942, 2005)
- S021SPbF ARAN, f. 150 (Pushkin Commission)
- S024Pushkin Reserve Research Archive
- S025ODNILS GAPO, f. 1219, op. 1, d. 352
- S028RGALI (online catalogue and inventories)
- S035Kubanskiye Oblastnye Vedomosti (KOV)
- S036Kavkaz newspaper (Tiflis)
- S070Nauka i nauchnye rabotniki SSSR, pt 5 (Leningrad, 1934)
- S071M.M. Kalaushin, “Pushkinskiye mesta” (Vremennik Pushkinskoy komissii 1, 1936)
- S072M. Kalaushin and N. Shimanov, “Pushkinskaya vystavka v Leningrade” (Vremennik Pushkinskoy komissii 3, 1937)
- S073Vremennik Pushkinskoy komissii 6 (1941)
- S074Leningradskaya Pravda, 1944
- S075Ogonyok, 1949
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- S086Mikhailovskaya Pushkiniana, the Mikhailovskoye Museum Reserve series
- S087Pushkinsky Ugolok, newspaper of the Pushkin Reserve
- S090L. Ageyeva, “Uroki Semyona Geychenko” (Mikhailovskaya Pushkiniana 71, 2018)
- S100S.S. Geychenko, U Lukomorya (Leningrad, 1986)
- S104P. Druzhinin, “Pushkinsky Dom pod ognyom bolshevistskoy kritiki” (NLO, 2011)
- S106I. Yefimova, “Pushkinsky prazdnik poezii v Mikhailovskom. 1940–1950-e” (Mikhailovskaya Pushkiniana 87)
- S107K.B. Zhuchkov, “Poyezdka v Pushkinskiye Gory v 1936 g.” (Pskov, 2020)
- S115N. Kononikhin, “Podvizhnik russkogo avangarda” (1999)
- S118D.S. Likhachev, “Kak my ostalis zhivy” (Neva, 1991)
- S125S. Petrova, “Chirskov Boris Fyodorovich” (Literatory Sankt-Peterburga. XX vek)
- S129A.G. Rabinyants, “Tikhy podvig” (All-Russian Pushkin Museum library website)
- S134L.M. Soldatova, “Iz istorii Pushkinskogo zapovednika 30-kh godov XX veka” (Mikhailovskaya Pushkiniana 19)
- S140A.I. Khvatov, Literaturny muzey Pushkinskogo Doma (Leningrad, 1982)
- S144M.A. Shpinyova, “Vsya nasha semya zapovedniku sluzhila” (1994; repr. 2014)
- S150museumpushkin.ru: “140 years of the first Pushkin museum”
- S163All-Russian Pushkin Museum: exhibition “Boris Kalaushin: From the Academy to Abstraction” (2015)
- S165State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of the Russian Federation (Goskatalog)
- S170F.I. Moiseyenko Labinsk Museum of History and Local Lore (labinskiymuzey.ru)
- S175Podvig Naroda database (podvignaroda.ru)
- S177Russian State Library (RSL), online catalogue
- S188Russian Wikipedia — for general historical context
- S204Encyclopaedia of St Petersburg (encspb.ru)