Person · Generation 5 · The Alekseyevich line
Aleksandr Alekseyevich Kalaushin
Александр Алексеевич Калаушин1877 or 1878 – 1933
The youngest of the master brothers, born 1877 or 1878, an uryadnik of the Convoy (in 1904–1908, according to the family) and in 1913 a teacher of harness-making at the Maykop Military Crafts School. Relatives say that his craft protected the family in the years of repression; he died in Sukhumi in 1933.
Traits of the house
Relation to the author
first cousin of the author’s great-great-grandfather
Path through the generations
Family tree
Matvey Alekseyevich1867 – 1912Mikhail Alekseyevich9 July 1870 – 1912Fedot Alekseyevich1871 – 1920Aleksandr Alekseyevich1877 or 1878 – 1933Yevdokiya FyodorovnaSavva Alekseyevichd. 1936Anna Alekseyevna
ChildrenNikolay Aleksandrovichb. 1901Boris Aleksandrovich1 (14) May 1904 – missing since 15 August 1941Aleksandra Aleksandrovna1907 – 1980Mariya Aleksandrovna1910 – c. 1990Mikhail Aleksandrovich1912 – 1978Lyudmila Aleksandrovna1916 – date of death unknownSon of Aleksandr Alekseyevich Kalaushin (name not recorded)
Family
- Father
- Aleksey Nikolayevich Kalaushin c. 1839 – 1911
- Brothers and sisters
- Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin 1867 – 1912
- Mikhail Alekseyevich Kalaushin 9 July 1870 – 1912
- Fedot Alekseyevich Kalaushin 1871 – 1920
- Savva (Savely) Alekseyevich Kalaushin d. 1936
- Anna Alekseyevna Svidina (née Kalaushina)
- Children
- Nikolay Aleksandrovich Kalaushin b. 1901
- Boris Aleksandrovich Kalaushin 1 (14) May 1904 – missing since 15 August 1941
- Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Chirskova (née Kalaushina) 1907 – 1980
- Mariya Aleksandrovna Kalaushina 1910 – c. 1990
- Mikhail Aleksandrovich Kalaushin 1912 – 1978
- Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Belorusova (née Kalaushina) 1916 – date of death unknown
- Son of Aleksandr Alekseyevich Kalaushin (name not recorded)
- Grandchildren
- 9 — in the tree
- Related by marriage
Life events12
Service begins: His Majesty’s Own Convoy (uryadnik)
◇ family testimony
◇ family testimonySt Petersburg
Prince Trubetskoy takes command of the Convoy
◈ published source
Service ends: His Majesty’s Own Convoy
◇ family testimony
Masters of the Maykop Military Crafts School
◈ published sourceMaykop
◇ family testimonyLabinskaya stanitsa
1913
the Maykop Military Crafts School: ends
◆ documented
A house with a power plant and a cinema
◇ family testimonyLabinskaya stanitsa
6 December 1930 – 2 January 1934
◆ documentedBatalpashinskaya stanitsa
◇ family testimonySukhum
Death
Places7
- Batalpashinskaya stanitsaborn · named in the roster entry · work · events 1930
- Maykopnamed in the roster entry · work 1910–1913 · events 1910
- Sukhumnamed in the roster entry · events 1933 · died
- Tsarskoye Seloservice 1904–1908
- Labinskaya stanitsanamed in the roster entry · events 1912–1916
- Shirvanskaya stanitsanamed in the roster entry
- St Petersburgnamed in the roster entry · events 1904
Documents and photographs3
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 
Aleksandr 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
Service and institutions3
- His Majesty’s Own Convoyuryadnik1904–1908◇ family testimony
- the Maykop Military Crafts Schoolteacher of harness-making1910–1913◆ documented
- the Kalaushin saddlery workshopharness-maker◈ published source
In the chronicle
- …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 —…
- …naturally since Fedot’s younger brother, Aleksandr Alekseyevich, also served in the Convoy under Trubetskoy. The full story is told in the chapters “At Court” and “The Workshop”.
- …kept the name of the later, better-remembered commander: according to the family, Fedot’s younger brother Aleksandr Alekseyevich was still serving in the Convoy under him (1904–1908), and under him the Convoy celebrated its centenary.…
- Aleksandr Alekseyevich was also a Convoy uryadnik; according to Emiliya Fyodorovna Kalaushina, he served in St…
- …. Under him, in 1906–1908, according to the family, Fedot’s younger brother Aleksandr Alekseyevich was still serving in the Convoy, and under him the Convoy celebrated its centenary. △ For Kuban families his…
- The youngest brother, Aleksandr Alekseyevich Kalaushin, was born in 1877 or 1878. He is called an uryadnik of the Convoy both in S.V. Volkov’s database and in a…
- …1904, his son Boris was born — the first of the direct line of the Kalaushins to be born in St Petersburg. His daughters remembered their father as a dashing horseman. Lyudmila Aleksandrovna said that he could…
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- …direct line for certain, and as far as the side line of Gavrila — were saddlers,” the family history records.
- …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…
- …uryadnik of the Convoy in 1904–1908, and his son Boris was born in the Convoy barracks on Shpalernaya Street. Matvey Alekseyevich, the family recalls, was not taken into the Convoy because he was too short, and served…
- …. Nikolay Aleksandrovich, born in 1901, a son of Aleksandr Alekseyevich, served in the Volunteer Army and went missing; the family remembered the words of “Aunt…
- …under whom, in 1906–1908, Fedot’s younger brother Aleksandr Alekseyevich also served in the Convoy. This is a note on names, not a contradiction of the account. Watches were a customary imperial reward in…
- …. Fedot Alekseyevich’s other children, Anna, Aleksey and Mariya, later lived in Sukhum as well, and his wife, Irina Mikhailovna, died there. The youngest daughter, Mariya Fedotovna, born…
- …Boris Fyodorovich Chirskov, married Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Kalaushina (1907–1980), daughter of Aleksandr Alekseyevich and Matvey Matveyevich’s first cousin. So the two families were joined twice over.…
- …Cossack bodyguard, in 1904–1908, and the birth of his son Boris in the Convoy barracks on Shpalernaya Street. Those St Petersburg years also help in matching the dates of another family account: the saddle for the…
- …commander, under whom Fedot’s younger brother, Aleksandr Alekseyevich, served in the Convoy. Fedot Alekseyevich’s title of Purveyor to the Court is confirmed by the official list of 1915. The…
- …(the Emperor’s Cossack bodyguard; hereafter the Convoy), and her daughters Mariya and Lyudmila Aleksandrovna; Nikolay Fedotovich, son of Fedot Alekseyevich; and Lev Petrovich, whose…
- …young man, and that Aleksandr Alekseyevich served as an uryadnik of the Convoy in St Petersburg in 1904–1908. Note on the roster. The entry for Matvey Matveyevich gives 1947 as the year of her death, but in May 1955…
- …was born in 1932. He is a great-grandson of Aleksey Nikolayevich and a grandson of the Convoy uryadnik Aleksandr Alekseyevich. His father, Boris Aleksandrovich, a cinema technician, was mobilised on 22 June 1941 and in…
- …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.
- …Alekseyevich, served in the Convoy in 1904–1908, his last years there falling under Trubetskoy’s command. △ For Kuban families his was the best-remembered commander’s name of those years, and in the account it…
14. Sources and Further Research
- …commanded the Convoy in 1906–1914, and Fedot’s younger brother Aleksandr Alekseyevich served under him. △ The family most likely kept the name of the later, better-remembered commander. The title. The official…
- …aul (mountain village), and in church she was recorded as a Gypsy’s daughter. Yevdokiya Fyodorovna, Aleksandr Alekseyevich’s wife, said that Anna Nikitichna was the daughter of a Gypsy named Belavin; Aleksandr Borisovich believed…
- …Aleksey Matveyevich was born in Kutais, and the families of Fedot and Aleksandr Alekseyevich lived in Sukhum; émigré collections — the Hoover Institution, the Museum of Russian History at Jordanville, the Kuban…
Sources
- ◈ Volkov database, vol. “K”
- ◆ Kavkazsky kalendar 1913, PDF p. 970
- ◇ Roster, No. 74
Sources by key
- S001A.B. Kalaushin’s roster Kalaushiny (philippov.spb.ru, version 03.02 of 13 July 2025)
- S018Maykop parish registers (NA RA, f. 77, op. 1-l)
- S020Archive of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic: decisions on disenfranchisement (1930–1932)
- S036Kavkaz newspaper (Tiflis)
- S058Kavkazsky kalendar (Tiflis), 1910–1914
- S097N.V. Galushkin, Sobstvenny Yego Imperatorskogo Velichestva Konvoy (San Francisco, 1961)
- S108I.V. Zimin et al., Yuvelirnye sokrovishcha Rossiyskogo imperatorskogo dvora (Moscow, 2013)
- S127Ye. Preobrazhenskaya, “Vizity shakha Persii v Rossiyu” (Naslediye Imperii)
- S153sammler.ru: collectors’ forum (P.N. Strelyanov)
- S162S.V. Volkov, database Uchastniki Belogo dvizheniya v Rossii, vol. “K”
- S188Russian Wikipedia — for general historical context