Person · Generation 5 · The Alekseyevich line
Mikhail Alekseyevich Kalaushin
Михаил Алексеевич Калаушин9 July 1870 – 1912

Born 9 July 1870, an uryadnik of the Convoy and a saddler; in 1902 master of the saddlery department of the Labinskaya Military Crafts School and inventor of clamps for gluing the saddle tree. He died in 1912 — by a hunting accident, as relatives recall.
Traits of the house
- Quality
A bronze medal in 1896 for leatherwork (shared with Fedot Alekseyevich and I.M. Fisenko) and a silver medal in 1902 “for saddlery work”.
[◆ S044, no. 1, p. 33; ◆ S035, 1902, no. 255, 28.11.1902, p. 1] - Exclusivity
Cossack and uryadnik of the Convoy.
[◈ S033, via S180, topic 855] - System
Inventor of clamps for gluing the saddle tree (1902) and a teacher of saddlery.
[◆ S035, 1902, no. 204, 21.09.1902, p. 2; ◈ S153, P.N. Strelyanov, 2020]
Relation to the author
first cousin of the author’s great-great-grandfather
Path through the generations
Family tree
Family
- Father
- Aleksey Nikolayevich Kalaushin c. 1839 – 1911
- Brothers and sisters
- Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin 1867 – 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
Life events12
◈ published sourceBatalpashinskaya stanitsa
The prizes of Paris and London in family memory
◇ family testimonyParis
the Labinskaya Military Crafts School: ends
◆ documented
the Maykop Military Crafts School: begins (master)
◈ published source
Masters of the Maykop Military Crafts School
◈ published sourceMaykop
◇ family testimonyLabinskaya stanitsa
Death
Places8
- Batalpashinskaya stanitsaborn 1870 · named in the roster entry · work · events 1870
- Labinskaya stanitsanamed in the roster entry · work 1899–1902 · events 1910–1912
- Maykopwork 1910 · events 1910
- Tsarskoye Seloservice
- Nizhny Novgorodevents 1896
- Parisevents 1900
- Voznesenskaya stanitsaevents 1899
- Yekaterinodarevents 1902
Documents and photographs9

◆ 1896 bronze medal to Fedot and Mikhail Kalaushin ("Illustrated Herald", p. 33)Scan: Internet Archive (archive.org) 
◆ "Album of participants… 1896", pt III, p. 158: "Kalaushin, uryadnik of the Kuban Host" — bronze medalScan: Internet Archive (archive.org) 
◆ "Kalaushin, uryadnik of the Kuban Host" — line in the 1896 bronze-medal listScan: Internet Archive (archive.org) 
◆ Entry for the bronze medal to Fedot and Mikhail Kalaushin (detail)Scan: Internet Archive (archive.org) 
Graduating class of the Maykop Military Craft School, 1910, with master-teachers Mikhail and Aleksandr Alekseevich KalaushinPrivate collection of P. N. Strelyanov (Kalabukhov), published on SAMMLER.RU; photographer unknown; public domain 
Mikhail Alekseevich Kalaushin, master-teacher at the Maykop craft school, 1910 (detail)Private collection of P. N. Strelyanov (Kalabukhov), published on SAMMLER.RU; photographer unknown; public domain 
"Samples of products" of the Maykop craft school in the 1910 photograph: saddle trees, candlesticks, rifles, a kinjalPrivate collection of P. N. Strelyanov (Kalabukhov), published on SAMMLER.RU; photographer unknown; public domain 
◆ Register of the Alexander church, Maykop, 1903: uryadnik Mikhail Alekseevich Kalaushin as godfather at a baptismNational Archive of the Republic of Adygea, f. 77, op. 1-l, d. 50; scan: Yandex "Search in archives" 
◆ "Vsya Rossiya" 1912: Labinskaya, "Harness goods. Kalaushin M. A."Scan: Internet Archive (archive.org)
Works and objects2
- The Kalaushin house in Labinsk1890-еB · documented link
- “Leather goods” by Fedot and Mikhail Kalaushin (All-Russian Exhibition, 1896)1896B · documented link
Awards3
| Awards | Date | For | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bronze medal of the All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition of 1896 | 1896 | His Majesty’s Own Convoy | ◆ documented S044 S039 |
| Large silver medal of the exhibition at the Voznesenskaya school of horticulture (1899) | 1899-09 | for a Cossack saddle (agricultural exhibition at the Voznesenskaya school of horticulture); △ the identification with Mikhail Alekseyevich is probable | ◆ documented S035 |
| Silver medal of the Kuban Exhibition in Yekaterinodar (1902) | 1902 | Kuban Economic Society medal “for saddlery work” (Kuban Exhibition, 1902) | ◆ documented S035 |
Service and institutions4
- His Majesty’s Own ConvoyCossack◈ published source
- the Maykop Military Crafts Schoolmaster1910◈ published source
- the Kalaushin saddlery workshopsaddler◈ published source
- the Labinskaya Military Crafts Schoolmaster of the saddlery department, teacher1899–1902◆ documented
In the chronicle
- …. 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 Fedot, born in 1871, entered in…
- …of the Life Guards 2nd Kuban Sotnia. In 1896 Uryadnik Fedot Alekseyevich and the Cossacks Mikhail Alekseyevich and I.M. Fisenko, entered as “in St Petersburg”, won a bronze medal for leather goods at the All-Russian…
- …inspections in succession. Note on the roster. The roster makes him a son of Mikhail Alekseyevich, but Mikhail Alekseyevich was born in 1870, only seven years earlier. △ Yefim’s father was…
- …taught (see below) — echo in the family’s words about the Kalaushins’ “school of applied leather crafts”.
- …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…
- Three of them served in the Convoy. Mikhail Alekseyevich served there as a Cossack and as an uryadnik (a Cossack non-commissioned officer)…
14. Sources and Further Research
- …— papers of 1920 on Batalpashinskaya. The parish registers of Labinskaya for 1912 — the deaths of Matvey and Mikhail Alekseyevich. Kubanskiye Oblastnye Vedomosti for 1897 and for summer 1900 — the texts of Orders No. 5 and No. 60. The…
- …parish registers of Maykop: in 1903 “uryadnik of Batalpashinskaya stanitsa, Kuban Oblast, Mikhail Alekseyev” stands godfather at a baptism. Central State Archive of the Republic of North…
- …the workshop’s work had more than once won prizes and gold medals at world exhibitions in Paris and London.
1 more
Sources
- ◈ Name index to the Orders of the Kuban Host 1880–1899, via kubancossack, topic 855
- ◆ Kubanskiye Oblastnye Vedomosti, 1902, no. 204, 21.09.1902, p. 2
- ◇ Roster, No. 72
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)
- S033Name index to the Orders of the Kuban Host, 1880–1899
- S035Kubanskiye Oblastnye Vedomosti (KOV)
- S036Kavkaz newspaper (Tiflis)
- S039Albom uchastnikov of the 1896 All-Russian Exhibition, pt III
- S044Illyustrirovanny vestnik… progressa Rossii, no. 1 (1898)
- S059Vsya Rossiya, 1912
- S060Kubansky kalendar for 1913 and 1914
- S153sammler.ru: collectors’ forum (P.N. Strelyanov)