Fedot Alekseyevich Kalaushin

Traits of the house

• Quality

  Exhibition medals of 1896 and 1902.

  [◆ S044, no. 1, p. 33; ◆ S035, 1902, no. 255, 28.11.1902, p. 1]
• Exclusivity

  Uryadnik of the Convoy (1892–1900); on the 1915 List of Purveyors to the Imperial Court; the saddle for the Shah of Persia was made in his workshop — ◇ family testimony · confirmed by relatives.

  [◈ S001, No. 73; ◈ S108; ◇ S001, No. 73; ◇ S003]

Relation to the author

Family tree

Family

Father

Aleksey Nikolayevich Kalaushin c. 1839 – 1911

Mother

Anna Nikitichna Kalaushina (née Bulavina)

Spouses

• Irina Mikhailovna Kalaushina

Brothers and sisters

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

Children

• Anna Fedotovna Pronina (née Kalaushina) 1895 – 1979
• Nikolay Fedotovich Kalaushin 1897 – 1977
• Aleksey Fedotovich Kalaushin 1902 – 1968
• Mariya Fedotovna Pokovetinova (née Kalaushina) b. 1912

Grandchildren

4 — in the tree

Related by marriage

• The Pushkarsky family

Life events25

1. 1871

   Birth of Fedot Alekseyevich

   ◈ published sourceBatalpashinskaya stanitsa

2. May 1889

   Naser al-Din Shah in St Petersburg

   ◈ published sourceSt Petersburg

3. 17 November 1889

   Tiflis: “for a saddle and saddle straps”

   ◆ documentedTiflis

4. 1891

   Fedot Alekseyevich takes the oath

   ◈ published source

5. 1892

   Service begins: His Majesty’s Own Convoy (uryadnik)

   ◈ published source

6. 1892

   Service begins: Life Guards 2nd Kuban Sotnia (uryadnik)

   ◈ published source

7. 7 June 1892

   Fedot Alekseyevich joins the Convoy

   ◈ published sourceGatchina

8. 1896

   Nizhny Novgorod: a bronze medal and an honourable mention

   ◆ documentedNizhny Novgorod

9. 13 January 1897

   The Mecklenburg-Schwerin medals

   ◈ published source

10. March – May 1900

    The saddle for the Shah of Persia

    ◇ family testimony · confirmed by relatives

    Batalpashinskaya stanitsa

11. 31 May (13 June) 1900

    The farewell review at the Alexander Palace

    ◆ documentedThe Alexander Palace

12. 17 June (30) 1900

    Order No. 60: Fedot Alekseyevich leaves the Convoy

    ◈ published source

13. 17 June 1900

    Award: Badge for service in the Convoy

    ◈ published source

14. 1900

    The prizes of Paris and London in family memory

    ◇ family testimonyParis

15. 1900

    Service ends: His Majesty’s Own Convoy

    ◈ published source

16. 1900

    Service ends: Life Guards 2nd Kuban Sotnia

    ◈ published source

17. September – November 1902

    The Kuban Exhibition at Yekaterinodar

    ◆ documentedYekaterinodar

18. 1906

    Prince Trubetskoy takes command of the Convoy

    ◈ published source

19. 17 September 1907

    Fedot Alekseyevich becomes stanitsa ataman

    ◆ documentedBatalpashinskaya stanitsa

20. 1911–1912

    The parade commission for Archduke Franz Ferdinand

    ◇ family testimony · confirmed by relatives

    Labinskaya stanitsa

21. 1915

    The List of Purveyors to the Imperial Court

    ◈ published source

22. 5 September 1918

    Shkuro takes Batalpashinskaya

    ◈ published sourceBatalpashinskaya stanitsa

23. 1920

    The death of Fedot Alekseyevich

    ◈ published sourceBatalpashinskaya stanitsa

24. 1920

    the Kalaushin saddlery workshop: ends

    ◈ published source

25. 8 October 2026

    Relatives confirm two family accounts

    ◇ family testimony

Places12

• Batalpashinskaya stanitsaborn 1871 · named in the roster entry · work 1920 · events 1871, 1900, 1907, 1918, 1920 · died
• Gatchinanamed in the roster entry · service 1892–1900 · events 1892
• Tsarskoye Seloservice 1892–1900
• Labinskaya stanitsaevents 1911
• Moscownamed in the roster entry
• Nizhny Novgorodevents 1896
• Parisevents 1900
• St Petersburgnamed in the roster entry · events 1889
• Sukhumnamed in the roster entry
• The Alexander Palaceevents 1900
• Tiflisevents 1889
• Yekaterinodarevents 1902

Documents and photographs15

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Works and objects4

• “Leather goods” by Fedot and Mikhail Kalaushin (All-Russian Exhibition, 1896)1896B · documented link
• The saddle for the Shah of Persiaspring to early summer 1900 (△ dating)◇ family testimony · confirmed by relatives
• The parade set for Archduke Franz Ferdinandprobably 1911–1912◇ family testimony · confirmed by relatives
• Saddles for officers of the Convoy from the Kalaushin workshopc. 1895–1914B · documented link

Awards5

Service and institutions3

• His Majesty’s Own Convoyuryadnik1892–1900◈ published source
• Life Guards 2nd Kuban Sotniauryadnik1892–1900◈ published source
• the Kalaushin saddlery workshopsaddler; workshop and shop on Sobornaya Street1920◈ published source

In the chronicle

1. 3. The Caucasian Line

   • …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 —…
   • …guardhouse for two days for an incautious answer. The promised gold watch never reached Fedot Alekseyevich. Relatives confirm the account.
   • …Order No. 60 of 17 June 1900, “retaining the Guards uniform and awarded the badge for service in the Convoy”. During his service a Persian shah came to St Petersburg on a state visit only once: Mozaffar ad-Din Shah,…
   1 more

   ¶ 57

2. 4. Service and Crosses

   • …in the Convoy: Mikhail, born on 9 July 1870, as a Cossack and then an uryadnik, and Fedot, born in 1871, entered in the index of Host orders as a “saddler”, who took the oath in 1891…
   • …III and then in St Petersburg under Nicholas II, as an uryadnik of the Life Guards 2nd Kuban Sotnia. In 1896 Uryadnik Fedot Alekseyevich and the Cossacks Mikhail Alekseyevich and I.M. Fisenko, entered as “in…
   • …Imperial Majesty — a title that, as the family tells it, was granted to him after the saddle for the Shah. Relatives confirm the account; it is recorded in the family history.
   1 more

   ¶ 16

3. 5. At Court

   • …the Kuban Host’s delegation. This chapter is about them, and about the saddle which, as the family tells it, Fedot Alekseyevich made for the Shah of Persia.
   • Fedot Alekseyevich Kalaushin was born in 1871. The same index lists him as a “saddler”; he took the oath in 1891…
   • …serving. At the All-Russian Exhibition of 1896 in Nizhny Novgorod a bronze medal for leather goods went to “Kalaushin, Fedot Alekseyevich, uryadnik, and Kalaushin, Mikhail Alekseyevich, and Fisenko, Ivan Mikhailovich, Cossacks, in St Petersburg”…
   13 more

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4. 6. The Workshop

   • …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…
   • …then in the capital, St Petersburg, under Nicholas II”, as an uryadnik of the Life Guards 2nd Kuban Sotnia. Aleksandr Alekseyevich was an uryadnik of the Convoy in 1904–1908, and his son Boris was born in the Convoy…
   • …Nizhny Novgorod in 1896 the brothers won two awards in the class “Leather goods”. The bronze medal went to “Kalaushin, Fedot Alekseyevich, uryadnik, and Kalaushin, Mikhail Alekseyevich, and Fisenko, Ivan Mikhailovich, Cossacks, in St Petersburg”;…
   14 more

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5. 7. The Upheaval

   • The Kalaushins found themselves on different sides. Under the Whites Fedot Alekseyevich was ataman (elected head) of Batalpashinskaya (see below). His son Nikolay Fedotovich, the roster records,…
   • In 1917 Fedot Alekseyevich Kalaushin, a first cousin of Pavel Aleksandrovich, was 46. Behind him lay eight years in…
   • …guardhouse for two days for an incautious answer. The promised gold watch never reached Fedot Alekseyevich. Relatives confirm the account; it is recorded in the family history.
   9 more

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6. 9. The Great Patriotic War

   • Aleksey Fedotovich, son of the Convoy Cossack and master saddler Fedot Alekseyevich, lived in Sukhumi and was also a driver. He was called up by the Sukhumi city military commissariat; as a…

7. 10. Pushkin House

   • …. The 1915 List of Purveyors to the Imperial Court names his brother, Fedot Alekseyevich. The workshop, its awards and its commissions are the subject of the chapter “The Workshop”.
   • …the Court of His Imperial Majesty; the gold watch promised with the title never reached Fedot Alekseyevich. The story is recorded in the family history, and relatives confirm it.
   • …Cossack Host of 17 June 1900, “retaining the Guards uniform and awarded the badge for service in the Convoy”. The only state visit of a Persian shah to St Petersburg during his service was that of Mozaffar ad-Din…
   2 more

   ¶ 55¶ 63-9

8. 11. The Artist

   • …ordered by Emperor Nicholas II, was made over two months in the workshop of Fedot Alekseyevich Kalaushin, Matvey Alekseyevich’s brother; Fedot Alekseyevich took it to St Petersburg himself, and the Emperor praised…
   • …Majesty’s Own Convoy from 1892 and was discharged by Order No. 60 of the Kuban Cossack Host of 17 June 1900, and the only state visit of a Persian shah to St Petersburg in those years was that of Mozaffar ad-Din…

9. 12. The Chroniclers

   • …and her daughters Mariya and Lyudmila Aleksandrovna; Nikolay Fedotovich, son of Fedot Alekseyevich; and Lev Petrovich, whose stories came down through the letters of his…
   • …bottles. Of Fedot Alekseyevich’s orchard she wrote briefly: “The garden was immaculate. Irisha worked hard”.
   • …commission that Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin carried out together with Fedot Alekseyevich as a complete set of parade equipment for Archduke Franz Ferdinand — “full parade harness, saddles, sabres,…
   8 more

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10. 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.
    • …In 1920 Pavel Aleksandrovich’s first cousin, Fedot Alekseyevich, was shot as a hostage in Batalpashinskaya. △ The family account is undated (“during the Revolution”) and fits either period of Soviet rule, 1918 or…
    • Pavel Aleksandrovich’s first cousin, Fedot Alekseyevich Kalaushin, served from 1892 to 1900 in His Majesty’s Own Convoy (the Cossack bodyguard of the Emperor; hereafter the…
    5 more

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11. 14. Sources and Further Research

    • …1914 prints “Kalaushin, Fyodor Alekseyev.” — △ in all likelihood Fedot Alekseyevich. It pays to search under every form, and also by first name and patronymic, stanitsa (Cossack village) and…
    • …roster and from the Kubanskaya genealogiya databases: No. 156 of 7 June 1892, enrolling Fedot Alekseyevich in the Convoy; No. 5 of 13 January 1897, on his Mecklenburg medals; No. 60 of 17 June 1900, discharging him…
    • …Batalpashinskaya Pravda for 1920, whose no. 27 the roster cites in telling of Fedot Alekseyevich’s death.
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Sources

Roster entry No. 73

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