Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin

Traits of the house

• Quality

  “For a saddle and saddle straps” — Tiflis, 1889; “Kalaus steel” in the family’s memory.

  [◆ S036, no. 305, 17.11.1889, p. 2; ◇ S001, No. 71]
• Exclusivity

  Parade equipment for Archduke Franz Ferdinand — ◇ family testimony · confirmed by relatives.

  [◇ S001, No. 71; ◇ S003]

Relation to the author

Family tree

Family

Father

Aleksey Nikolayevich Kalaushin c. 1839 – 1911

Mother

Anna Nikitichna Kalaushina (née Bulavina)

Spouses

• Pelageya Yemelyanovna Kalaushina (née Podlobkova)

Brothers and sisters

• 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)

Children

• 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 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)

Grandchildren

10 — in the tree

Related by marriage

• The Podlobkov family

Life events14

1. 1867

   Birth of Matvey Alekseyevich

   ◈ published sourceBatalpashinskaya stanitsa

2. 17 November 1889

   Tiflis: “for a saddle and saddle straps”

   ◆ documentedTiflis

3. 1894

   Birth of Aleksey Matveyevich

   ◈ published sourceKutais

4. 1896

   Nizhny Novgorod: a bronze medal and an honourable mention

   ◆ documentedNizhny Novgorod

5. 1900

   The prizes of Paris and London in family memory

   ◇ family testimonyParis

6. 30 September 1903

   “Kalaus steel”

   ◇ family testimonyLabinskaya stanitsa

7. 23 July (5 August) 1904

   Birth of Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin

   ◆ documentedLabinskaya stanitsa

8. 1910

   Matvey Alekseyevich at Labinskaya

   ◆ documentedLabinskaya stanitsa

9. 1911–1912

   The parade commission for Archduke Franz Ferdinand

   ◇ family testimony · confirmed by relatives

   Labinskaya stanitsa

10. 1912

    The family loses two masters

    ◇ family testimonyLabinskaya stanitsa

11. 1912

    Death

12. 1912

    the Kalaushin saddlery workshop: ends

    ◈ published source

13. 1915

    The List of Purveyors to the Imperial Court

    ◈ published source

14. 8 October 2026

    Relatives confirm two family accounts

    ◇ family testimony

Places8

• Batalpashinskaya stanitsaborn 1867 · named in the roster entry · work 1912 · events 1867
• Labinskaya stanitsanamed in the roster entry · events 1903, 1904, 1910, 1911, 1912 · died
• Armavirnamed in the roster entry
• Kutaisevents 1894
• Mikhailovskoyenamed in the roster entry
• Nizhny Novgorodevents 1896
• Parisevents 1900
• Tiflisevents 1889

Documents and photographs15

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Works and objects5

• Saddle and saddle straps by Matvey Kalaushin (Caucasus Exhibition, Tiflis, 1889)1889B · documented link
• The Kalaushin house in Labinsk1890-еB · documented link
• “Leather goods” by Matvey Kalaushin (All-Russian Exhibition, 1896)1896B · documented link
• Daggers “of Kalaus steel”early 20th century◇ family testimony
• The parade set for Archduke Franz Ferdinandprobably 1911–1912◇ family testimony · confirmed by relatives

Awards4

Service and institutions

• the Kalaushin saddlery workshopsaddler; head of the workshop from 1911 (Labinskaya)1912◈ published source

In the chronicle

1. 1. The Name

   • …· the story of Matvey Alekseyevich’s workshop The family recalls that Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin, to make his weapons, obtained Damascus steel through Suleymanov — the father of Lyubov Dzhelalovna…
   • ◇ family testimony · recorded by the compiler of the roster Yuliya Matveyevna Kalaushina, Matvey Alekseyevich’s daughter, was born in 1890 (or, by other accounts, in 1884), lived in Batalpashinsk, was a teacher, and…
   • The manuscript materials of A.B. Kalaushin (source of the roster) and the papers of Matvey Alekseyevich’s descendants — on Yuliya Matveyevna and the “versions of the origin of the surname”; RGALI, f. 734 — the…

2. 2. The Khoper

   • …prized in the Caucasus in those days; the family cited the historian and Arabist Leonid Lavrov in support. More is told in the chapter on the workshop.

3. 3. The Caucasian Line

   • …highly prized in the Caucasus; in support, the family cited the words of the Arabist historian Leonid Lavrov.
   • …their patronymics and the list of children under Aleksey Nikolayevich show that their father is No. 32. △ The parent numbers in this part of the roster appear to have shifted when the manuscript was retyped —…
   • …from Stavropolskaya in 1826–1827, while Labinskaya enters the family’s history later, with the generation of Matvey Alekseyevich: in 1910 he was chairman of the Second Mutual Credit Society of Labinskaya.

4. 4. Service and Crosses

   • …, whom the roster calls a Convoy uryadnik. The eldest brother, Matvey Alekseyevich, did not join the Convoy: the family remembered that he served in a Cossack regiment at Labinskaya but was…
   • Aleksey Matveyevich, son of Matvey Alekseyevich, was commissioned khorunzhy from the Yelisavetgrad Cavalry School into the 3rd Khoper Regiment by Imperial…

5. 5. At Court

   • …family remembers, served in a Cossack regiment at Labinskaya, “but not in the Convoy, because he was short”: the Convoy took tall men.

6. 6. The Workshop

   • …taught (see below) — echo in the family’s words about the Kalaushins’ “school of applied leather crafts”.
   • …enough medals to go round, and diplomas were also given to private exhibitors. Matvey Alekseyevich (b. 1867) was then 21 or 22. It is the earliest exhibition award to a Kalaushin found so far, and the only…
   • …daughter: Matvey (b. 1867), Mikhail (b. 1870), Fedot (b. 1871), Aleksandr (b. 1877 or 1878), Savva and Anna. Four of the brothers — Matvey, Mikhail, Fedot and Aleksandr — became saddlers and harness-makers. Note on…
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7. 7. The Upheaval

   • …Kherson on 18 December 1920”. The sons of Matvey Alekseyevich — Aleksey, Nikolay and Aleksandr — also went abroad with the Whites…
   • …committee of the Cherkess Autonomous Oblast: Yuliya Matveyevna, a teacher, daughter of Matvey Alekseyevich — “as one who had a saddlery and harness workshop exploiting hired labour; letting of a house”. The craft by…
   • …who had a kulak farm; letting of houses”. The roster identifies her with Pelageya Matveyevna, daughter of Matvey Alekseyevich.
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8. 8. Exile

   • As his great-grandson N.G. Firtich writes, Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin, a master saddler of Labinskaya stanitsa (a Cossack village; now the town of Labinsk), had nine children,…
   • …stanitsa (now Cherkessk), 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…

9. 10. Pushkin House

   • …in Kuban Oblast, now the town of Labinsk. His father, Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin, a Cossack of Batalpashinskaya stanitsa, kept a saddlery and harness workshop at Labinskaya; his mother,…
   • There were nine children in the family (the roster names eleven from Matvey Alekseyevich’s two marriages), and the youngest, Matyusha, was fondly called Matylyok — a pet name that plays on motylyok, ‘little moth’.…
   • Documentary context. In the award lists found so far, Matvey Alekseyevich appears, in all likelihood, twice: at the Caucasus Exhibition of 1889 in Tiflis (Tbilisi) an award of bronze…
   4 more

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10. 11. The Artist

    • …does not name his stanitsa (Cossack village), but △ he was almost certainly Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin, a twenty-two-year-old Cossack of Batalpashinskaya from a family of saddlers: the surname is rare, and in…
    • …— for Archduke Franz Ferdinand: a “political” order meant to help improve relations with Austria-Hungary. Relatives confirm both accounts — the saddle for the Shah, and that the commission for the Archduke was…
    • Matvey Alekseyevich’s grandson chose a different craft. Boris Matveyevich Kalaushin, son of the Pushkin scholar…

11. 12. The Chroniclers

    • …it himself, and kinzhals (Caucasian daggers) “with Kalaus steel” were highly prized in the Caucasus. △ Most likely it means kalaushinskaya, “the Kalaushins’ steel”: in the Caucasus steel was named after the…
    • …in 1945, and on 10 June 1949 Matvey Matveyevich opened the All-Union Pushkin Museum in the Alexander Palace.
    • The family remembers the last commission that Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin carried out together with Fedot Alekseyevich as a complete set of parade equipment for…
    2 more

    ¶ 29¶ 41

12. 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 says that Geychenko was “handed this post by Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin”; according to the documents and memoirs, Matvey Matveyevich was not himself styled director of the Reserve —…

13. 14. Sources and Further Research

    • …reading of old typefaces makes mistakes. The line recording the award to Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin at the Caucasus Exhibition of 1889 was read by the software as “Matviyo Kalauishnu”, and a text search could…
    • The family remembers the last commission that Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin carried out together with Fedot Alekseyevich as a complete set of parade equipment for Archduke Franz…
    • Matvey Alekseyevich died in 1912, so the work was finished before then. From 1891 the Archduke was honorary chief of the Russian 26th Bug…
    3 more

    ¶ 30¶ 31¶ 33

Sources

Roster entry No. 71

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