Boris Matveyevich Kalaushin

Traits of the house

• Quality

  Some 120 originals in nine museums, the Russian Museum among them.

  [◈ S165; ◈ S171]
• System

  The Apollon volumes on Kulbin, Search and Documents, about five hundred pages each.

  [◈ S178; ◈ S115]

Relation to the author

Family tree

Family

Father

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

Mother

Emiliya Fyodorovna Kalaushina (née Chirskova)

Brothers and sisters

• Yuliya Matveyevna Firtich (née Kalaushina) b. 1939

Life events109

1. 1915

   Work: Strelets: First Collection (1915), with B. Kalaushin’s owner’s inscription

2. 1928

   Work: O. Mandelstam, On Poetry (1928), from B.M. Kalaushin’s library

3. 6 August 1929

   Birth of Boris Matveyevich Kalaushin

   ◈ published sourceSt Petersburg

4. 29–30 August 1935

   Artists at the Reserve

   ◆ documentedMikhailovskoye

5. 1941–1942

   The Siege: Pushkin House

   ◈ published sourcePushkin House

6. 1941–1942

   Work: Boris Kalaushin’s home-made booklets from the Siege and the evacuation (copies)

7. 1941–1942

   Work: Home-made booklets of the Siege and the evacuation (1941–1942)

8. 1945

   the Pushkin Reserve (Mikhailovskoye): begins (young artist: plan of the Petrovskoye park, drawings)

   ◆ documented

9. 1945

   Work: Nanny’s Cottage

10. 12 April 1945

    A fifteen-year-old artist at Mikhailovskoye

    ◈ published sourcePskov

11. 1945-05-16

    Work: Rough plan of the Petrovskoye park with the German fortifications (16 May 1945)

12. 1946

    the Pushkin Reserve (Mikhailovskoye): ends

    ◆ documented

13. 1950

    Work: Mikhailovskoye. View of the Estate. 1950

14. 1950-е (диплом 1956; изд. 1959)

    Work: Illustrations to Yury Olesha’s Three Fat Men

15. 1954

    Work: Two Mice in Dresses. Cover design (sketch for Leo Tolstoy’s Two Mice)

16. 1954

    Work: Two Mice by a Scroll. Title page (sketch for Leo Tolstoy’s Two Mice)

17. 1954

    Work: The Town Mouse Visits the Country Mouse (sketch for Two Mice)

18. 1954

    Work: The Country Mouse at Home (sketch for Two Mice)

19. 1954

    Work: The Field Mouse Invites Her Guest to the Table (sketch for Two Mice)

20. 1954

    Work: The Field Mouse Visits the Town Mouse (sketch for Two Mice)

21. 1954

    Work: The Master Enters the Room Where the Mice Were Feasting (sketch for Two Mice)

22. 1954

    Work: The Town Mouse’s Hole (sketch for Two Mice)

23. 1954

    Work: The Town Mouse Sees Her Guest Home (sketch for Two Mice)

24. 1954

    Work: Headpiece design for Chekhov’s story The Bride

25. 1956

    the Union of Artists of the USSR: begins (member; chairman of the monuments commission of the Leningrad branch (1980–1999))

    ◈ published source

26. 1956

    A book artist

    ◈ published sourceSt Petersburg

27. 1956–1968

    Work: Family papers in RGALI

28. 1956–1999

    Work: Books illustrated by B.M. Kalaushin (1956–1999)

29. 1959

    Work: Illustration to I. Demyanov’s Tongue-Twister

30. 1960

    Work: Composition with a Red House

31. 1960–1970-е

    Work: Illustration to I. Demyanov’s The Little Ones’ Book

32. 1963

    Work: Khosta. Landscape with a Cypress

33. 1963од

    Work: The Wonderful World of Water

34. 1963–1987

    Work: Filmstrips (1963–1987)

35. 1964

    Work: Caricature “Kalaushin Boris Matveyevich”

36. 1965

    Work: Reclining Woman 1

37. 1965

    Work: Reclining Woman 2

38. 1965

    Work: Still Life with a Palm

39. 1966

    Work: Portrait of a Woman

40. 1966

    Work: Mood. Female Face

41. 1966

    Work: Winter

42. 1966

    Work: Landscape in Blue Tones

43. 1966

    “Sunlit”

    ◈ published source

44. 1966-1968

    Work: Lit by the Sun

45. 1967

    Work: Filmstrip A Visit to the Clown (after Zoshchenko, 1967)

46. 1967

    Work: Blue Face

47. 1968

    Work: The Flower Fairy

48. 1968

    Work: A Storm Is Coming

49. 1968-1971

    Work: Nude Maiden

50. 1969

    Work: Study. Night

51. 1969

    Work: Portrait of a Girl

52. 1970

    Work: Portrait of Tamara

53. 1970-е

    Work: Landscape. Forest. Winter

54. 1970-е (книга — Малыш, 1972)

    Work: Illustrations to Ya. Satunovsky’s What Horses!

55. 1971

    Work: Window with a Landscape

56. 1971 (книга); каталоги указывают 1990

    Work: Illustrations to E. Moshkovskaya’s A Hundred Children — a Kindergarten

57. 1973

    Work: Portrait of a Woman (Nude)

58. 1977

    Work: Filmstrip The Very First King

59. 1979

    Work: Landscape. A Dacha

60. 1979

    Work: Landscape

61. 1979

    Work: Composition with Flowers and Beetroot

62. 1979

    Work: Lady on a Red Ground

63. 1980

    Work: Illustrations to V. Kudryavtseva’s Tyapy-Lyapy

64. 1980

    Work: Vitaly Vitalyevich Tambovtsev: exhibition catalogue (1980)

65. 1980-е

    Work: The Hedgehog and the Frogs (illustration)

66. 1981

    Work: Female Face

67. 1981

    Work: Fairy Tales (translated from the Danish; designed by B. Kalaushin, 1981)

68. 1981

    Work: Composition

69. 1982

    Work: Frame designs for the filmstrip A Tale of an Elephant, a Bonfire and a White Duckling

70. 1983

    Work: Landscape. From the series Village Houses

71. 1983–1984

    Work: Illustrations to N. Nosov’s How Dunno Rode the Soda-Water Car

72. 1985

    Work: Filmstrip The War of the Crocodiles

73. 1986

    Work: Romantic Portrait

74. 1986

    Work: Here Comes the Goat, the Cross-Eyed Goat

75. 1986

    Work: Illustration to the Russian folk tale “The Cat’s House”

76. 1986

    Work: Drawing. Portrait of B. Kalaushin

77. 1986–1989

    Work: Lithographs Portrait of a Woman (1986, 1989)

78. 1987

    Work: Portrait of a Woman (Face)

79. 1987

    Work: Portrait in Colour (Composition)

80. 1987

    Work: Illustration to the Russian folk tale “Here Comes the Horned Goat”

81. 1987

    Work: Frame designs for the filmstrip Merry Adventures, Not Only for Fun

82. 1987

    Work: Transcript of the conference The Origins of the Soviet Children’s Book (1987) — B.M. Kalaushin’s copy

83. 1987

    Work: The Little Ones’ Book (drawings by B. Kalaushin)

84. 1987

    His paintings shown for the first time

    ◈ published sourceSt Petersburg

85. 1989

    Work: Dacha Motif (Pines)

86. 1989

    Work: Portrait

87. 1989

    Work: Head of a Girl

88. 1989

    Work: Illustrations to the collection In the Damp Pinewood

89. 1990

    the Apollon society: begins (founder, editor-in-chief of the almanac)

    ◈ published source

90. 1991

    Work: Head of a Woman

91. 1991

    Work: Face II

92. 1991

    Work: Head

93. 1992

    Work: Dacha Motif

94. 1992

    Work: Portrait of a Woman. Two Profiles

95. 1994

    The Apollon almanac

    ◈ published sourceSt Petersburg

96. 1994–1995; надпись 22.01.1994

    Work: The Apollon almanac, 3 vols, inscribed by B.M. Kalaushin

97. 1994–1996

    Work: The Apollon almanac (1994–1996)

98. 1995

    Work: Portrait of a Woman 1

99. 1995

    Work: Portrait of a Woman 2

100. 1995

     Work: Portrait of a Woman 3

101. 1996

     Work: Spring No. 66

102. 1996

     Work: Moist Earth

103. 1996

     Work: Landscape. Early Spring

104. 1997

     Work: Futurist Drawing: exhibition catalogue (1997)

105. 1998

     Work: Sunny Day. From the series Dachas

106. 1998

     Work: Landscape. From the series Dachas

107. 10 June 1999

     Death of Boris Matveyevich

     ◈ published source

108. 1999

     the Apollon society: ends

     ◈ published source

109. 17 September – 17 October 2015

     “From the Academy to Abstraction”

     ◈ published sourcePushkin Apartment Museum (12 Moika Embankment)

Places10

• Mikhailovskoyenamed in the roster entry · work 1945–1946 · events 1935
• St Petersburgborn 1929 · named in the roster entry · work 1956, 1990, 1999 · events 1929, 1956, 1987, 1994
• Francenamed in the roster entry
• Izvaranamed in the roster entry
• Moscownamed in the roster entry
• Pskovevents 1945
• Pushkin Apartment Museum (12 Moika Embankment)events 2015
• Pushkin Houseevents 1941
• Tashkentnamed in the roster entry
• the United Statesnamed in the roster entry

Documents and photographs37

• Card: the image is not publishedBoris Matveevich Kalaushin in his study, 1990s© All-Russian Pushkin Museum; © heirs of B. M. KalaushinView at the rights holder ↗
• Card: the image is not publishedB. M. Kalaushin, geranium on a window (probably "Window with Geranium", 1968)© All-Russian Pushkin Museum; © heirs of B. M. KalaushinView at the rights holder ↗
• Card: the image is not publishedB. M. Kalaushin, figure in an interior (from the series of female images)© All-Russian Pushkin Museum; © heirs of B. M. KalaushinView at the rights holder ↗
• Card: the image is not publishedB. M. Kalaushin, southern house with a veranda and a sea view, 1959 (?)© All-Russian Pushkin Museum; © heirs of B. M. KalaushinView at the rights holder ↗
• Card: the image is not publishedB. M. Kalaushin, abstract female image© All-Russian Pushkin Museum; © heirs of B. M. KalaushinView at the rights holder ↗
• Card: the image is not publishedPortrait of Boris Kalaushin by Nikolai Firtich, 1980© N. G. Firtich; published on "Boris Kalaushin, The Artist"View at the rights holder ↗
• Card: the image is not publishedB. M. Kalaushin at an exhibition in front of his abstract works, 1990sFamily archive; published on the site "Boris Kalaushin, The Artist" (kalaushinboris.webs.com)View at the rights holder ↗
• Card: the image is not publishedB. M. Kalaushin, portrait, 1990sFamily archive; published on the site "Boris Kalaushin, The Artist" (kalaushinboris.webs.com)View at the rights holder ↗
• Card: the image is not publishedB. M. Kalaushin at an exhibition opening, 1990sFamily archive; published on the site "Boris Kalaushin, The Artist" (kalaushinboris.webs.com)View at the rights holder ↗

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Works and objects102

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Service and institutions3

• the Union of Artists of the USSRmember; chairman of the monuments commission of the Leningrad branch (1980–1999)1956◈ published source
• the Apollon societyfounder, editor-in-chief of the almanac1990–1999◈ published source
• the Pushkin Reserve (Mikhailovskoye)young artist: plan of the Petrovskoye park, drawings1945–1946◆ documented

In the chronicle

1. 2. The Khoper

   • …Lagaga. Relatives remember that other Kalaushins bore the same nickname — Ilya Nikolayevich the Second (in Boris Matveyevich’s account) and Afanasy Yegorovich (according to Lev Petrovich).

2. 3. The Caucasian Line

   • …Nikolay as a master saddler — the craft for which his grandsons would later become known. Boris Matveyevich Kalaushin recalled that Nikolay had two sons called Ilya, the second known as “Ilya the second, Lagaga”. According to…
   • …family’s own lists of Nikolay’s sons differ as well: Aleksandr Borisovich named Aleksandr among them, while Boris Matveyevich named a second Ilya and Anton but did not mention Aleksandr. The stanitsa’s registers for…

3. 6. The Workshop

   • …cited the historian and Arabist Leonid Lavrov. The family had gone for such steel before: Boris Matveyevich, retelling his father’s words, said that on one of the journeys for Damascus steel, “which was then…

4. 9. The Great Patriotic War

   • …Matveyevich’s family spent the first years of the Siege in Leningrad. His son, Boris Matveyevich, was twelve. In the besieged city, and later in evacuation in Tashkent, he wrote,…
   • …the boy did all this at the age of twelve to fourteen, “having barely crawled out of death by starvation”.
   • …sites; the journey to Pskov took more than two days. In May 1945, at Geychenko’s request, Boris Matveyevich drew a plan of the park at Petrovskoye showing the German defences of 1943–1944 — the minefield, dugouts,…
   1 more

   ¶ 50

5. 10. Pushkin House

   • …gifts: “at six, at Trigorskoye, Borya went out sketching with the artists N.E. Radlov and L.S. Khizhinsky”.
   • …to fourteen, made dozens of hand-written “little books”, acting as their author, illustrator and publisher. Matvey Matveyevich was awarded the Medal “For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”; it was…
   • On 12 April 1945 Geychenko set out for Pskov with the guide L.N. Nazarova and Boris Kalaushin, “the future artist, who was travelling with me to sketch the ruined Pushkin monuments”. On…
   2 more

   ¶ 47¶ 63-2

6. 11. The Artist

   • Matvey Alekseyevich’s grandson chose a different craft. Boris Matveyevich Kalaushin, son of the Pushkin scholar Matvey Matveyevich, became a book artist and a painter: he…
   • Boris was born in Leningrad on 6 August 1929. His father, the son of the Labinskaya saddler, worked from 1931 at Pushkin House — the Institute of…
   • …was already going out to paint from nature at Trigorskoye with the artists N.E. Radlov and L.S. Khizhinsky.
   20 more

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7. 12. The Chroniclers

   • …down from, and these notes show how many people had a hand in the common work. Boris Matveyevich Kalaushin was an artist, the son of the Pushkin scholar Matvey Matveyevich. Olga Savvichna — Olga Savelyevna Veber,…
   • …His grandmother, Yevdokiya Fyodorovna, said that Anna Nikitichna was the daughter of a Gypsy called Belavin. Boris Matveyevich, citing words his father spoke before he died, said that she was a Circassian: three brothers carried her…
   • ◇ family testimony · Boris Matveyevich’s account
   3 more

   ¶ 9¶ 40¶ 41

8. 13. Vyacheslav’s Line

   • …the Kalaushins would become known in the generations that followed. According to Boris Matveyevich Kalaushin, Nikolay had two sons named Ilya: there was, as the roster puts it, “a second Ilya as well, nicknamed…

9. 14. Sources and Further Research

   • Family memory. These are the accounts recorded in the roster from Boris Matveyevich, Olga Savvichna, Yevdokiya Fyodorovna, Emiliya Fyodorovna and other relatives, and the information given on…
   • …of 1957 with K.L. Zelinsky (f. 1604, op. 1, items 270, 611); a letter of 1958 from Boris Matveyevich (f. 2732, op. 1, item 1485) and his personal file of 1956 in the Union of Artists of the RSFSR (f. 2940, op.…
   • …1946 (Pl/ch, d. 14); and the 1945 plan of the Petrovsky park that Mikhailovskaya Pushkiniana attributes to B.M. Kalaushin (PZ-KP-250). ODNILS GAPO (Pskov), f. 1219, op. 1, d.…
   2 more

   ¶ 38¶ 40-2

Sources

Roster entry No. 213

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