Aleksey Nikolayevich Kalaushin

Traits of the house

• Quality

  His relatives called him “at that time the most distinguished saddler in the Caucasus”.

  [◇ S001, No. 32]

Relation to the author

Family tree

Family

Father

Nikolay Ivanovich Kalaushin b. c. 1816

Mother

Vasilisa (Vassa) Andreyevna Kalaushina b. c. 1819

Spouses

• Anna Nikitichna Kalaushina (née Bulavina)

Brothers and sisters

• Stefan (Stepan) Nikolayevich Kalaushin b. c. 1835
• Stepan Nikolayevich Kalaushin b. 1835
• Aleksandr Nikolayevich Kalaushin b. 1837
• Ilya Nikolayevich Kalaushin (the first) b. c. 1845
• Anton Nikolayevich Kalaushin b. after 1848
• Aleksandr Nikolayevich Kalaushin b. after 1848
• Yelizaveta Nikolayevna Kalaushina
• Agafya Nikolayevna Kalaushina
• Ilya Nikolayevich Kalaushin (the second, “Lagaga”)

Children

• Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin 1867 – 1912
• Mikhail Alekseyevich Kalaushin 9 July 1870 – 1912
• Fedot Alekseyevich Kalaushin 1871 – 1920
• Aleksandr Alekseyevich Kalaushin 1877 or 1878 – 1933
• Savva (Savely) Alekseyevich Kalaushin d. 1936
• Anna Alekseyevna Svidina (née Kalaushina)

Grandchildren

32 — in the tree

Related by marriage

• The Bulavin family

Life events7

1. 1867

   Birth of Matvey Alekseyevich

   ◈ published sourceBatalpashinskaya stanitsa

2. 1874

   Award: Cross “For Service in the Caucasus”

   ◈ published source

3. 1874

   Award: Medal “For the Conquest of the Western Caucasus”

   ◈ published source

4. 1874

   Award: Insignia of the Military Order (the soldiers’ St George Cross), 4th class (probably)

   ◈ published source

5. 1902

   The deed of 1902 and “Annushka the Circassian”

   ◇ family testimonyBatalpashinskaya stanitsa

6. 1911

   Death

7. 1911

   the Kalaushin saddlery workshop: ends

   ◈ published source

Places2

• Batalpashinskaya stanitsaborn · named in the roster entry · work 1911 · events 1867–1902 · died
• Gatchinanamed in the roster entry

Works and objects

• Saddles for officers of the Convoy from the Kalaushin workshopc. 1895–1914B · documented link

Awards3

Service and institutions

• the Kalaushin saddlery workshopmaster saddler; head of the workshop until 19111911◈ published source

In the chronicle

1. 3. The Caucasian Line

   • …Fedot and Aleksandr, of the teacher Savva and of their sister Anna, whose stories follow in later chapters. Note on the roster. The entries for these brothers and their sister are marked “.31” in the roster, that…

2. 4. Service and Crosses

   • …in the roster (the register of 1874 and the list of uryadniks of 1887), Aleksandr and Aleksey Nikolayevich held the Insignia of the Military Order, the silver Medal “For the Conquest of the Western…
   • …Caucasus for the work of his workshop”. In the 1890s two sons of the master saddler Aleksey Nikolayevich served in the Convoy: Mikhail, born on 9 July 1870, as a Cossack and then an uryadnik, and…
   • …· from Olga Savvichna and Lev Petrovich. Olga Savvichna remembered him with a big greying beard, very like Aleksey Nikolayevich; on his farmstead the children picked prunes. Drawing on her recollections and on what Lev Petrovich said,…

3. 5. At Court

   • The sons of the master saddler Aleksey Nikolayevich were the chamber Cossack’s great-nephews: their grandfather, Nikolay Ivanovich, was his brother…

4. 6. The Workshop

   • …and, in his relatives’ words, was “at that time the most distinguished saddler in the Caucasus”. From the side line descended from Gavriil Ivanovich, the family remembers Pyotr Gavrilovich, who “was a…
   • Note on the roster. The roster identifies this master (“A. Kalaushin”, 1887) as Aleksey Nikolayevich. In the 1890 report the department’s saddle master — unable to read and write, as in 1887 — is named as…
   • …— a saddle tree (35 roubles) and a saddle with fittings (50 roubles); △ probably Ilya Nikolayevich (No. 34), Aleksey Nikolayevich’s brother.
   5 more

   ¶ 10¶ 13¶ 34¶ 38¶ 42

5. 7. The Upheaval

   • In 1917 Fedot Alekseyevich Kalaushin, a first cousin of Pavel Aleksandrovich, was 46. Behind him lay eight years in His Majesty’s Own Convoy (the Cossack bodyguard of the Emperor),…

6. 8. Exile

   • …an officer of the Cossack infantry and, according to the roster, a first cousin of Matvey Alekseyevich. This chapter follows their paths — from the Volga and Primorye to Harbin, from the Crimea to…

7. 11. The Artist

   • …of a Gypsy named Belavin; Aleksandr Borisovich, the compiler of the roster, believed she was an Adyghe.
   • …since the first years of the stanitsa — the confessional register of 1827 lists a Cossack, Anton Bulavinov.

8. 12. The Chroniclers

   • Olga Savvichna remembered her grandfather, Aleksey Nikolayevich. On Sundays he rode into the stanitsa (the Cossack village) to church with his saddlebags full of apples,…
   • …eyes, but all his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren whom the compiler knew were dark-eyed. Their daughter, Anna Alekseyevna, was named after her mother.
   • …from the stanitsa’s first years: the confessional register of 1827 lists a Cossack Anton Bulavinov.
   3 more

   ¶ 11¶ 14¶ 16

9. 13. Vyacheslav’s Line

   • …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.
   • Note on the roster. The roster gives the same insignia number, 19441, for his brother Aleksey Nikolayevich; one number cannot have belonged to two men, and it can be checked against the RGVIA database Georgiyevskiye…
   • …Kalaushin — according to the roster a former Convoy man and a nephew of Aleksey Nikolayevich, and so another first cousin of Pavel Aleksandrovich.

10. 14. Sources and Further Research

    • …. Note on the roster. The roster takes these words to refer to Aleksey Nikolayevich; the department’s report for 1890 names the saddle-master in full — Anton Kalaushin…
    • The family called Aleksey Nikolayevich’s wife, Anna Nikitichna, Annushka-cherkeshenka — “Annushka the Circassian”. She was remembered in different…
    • … passed to the compiler of the roster, preserved Aleksey Nikolayevich’s words about his wife. If you have something of this kind, please share it — it will carry the chronicle forward.

Sources

Roster entry No. 32

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