Azov

On the map

Coordinates: 47.1000, 39.4167 · On the full map →

Role in the family history

On 17 July 1696 Cossacks, the Khoper men among them, broke into Azov; the day became the seniority date of the Khoper Regiment and later of the whole Kuban Host.

Events

1. 17 July 1696

   The Khoper Cossacks at Azov

   ◆ documentedAzov

In the chronicle

1. 1. The Name

   • …mentions a place “at the mouth of the Kalauza river, eight days’ journey from Astrakhan and six from Azov”.
   • …. In this country — by the headwaters of the Kalaus and the upper Yegorlyk, on the Azov–Mozdok Line — the Khoper Cossacks lived from 1777 to 1825, until the regiment was moved to the Kuban and the…

2. 2. The Khoper

   • …. At the end of the 17th century, according to the map drawn by Count Jacob Bruce after the Azov campaign of 1696, there were seven Cossack townships on the Khoper. The northernmost was Pristansky, on the…
   • …from Mozdok towards the Don and to settle Khoper and Volga Cossacks along it. His report on the new Azov–Mozdok Line reads: “The Khoper Cossack regiment, which has its settlement 27 versts from the Don stanitsas…

3. 3. The Caucasian Line

   • The Khoper Regiment came to the Azov–Mozdok Line in the autumn of 1777 and, together with dragoons, laid out the fortress from which Stavropol…
   • …in Batalpashinskaya part of the money for a new one. So, in Tolstov’s words, after fifty years on the Azov–Mozdok Line the Khoper Cossacks “left the comfortable places they had made their own and, with all their…

4. 4. Service and Crosses

   • …Trofim Pakhomovich lived in Stavropolskaya, one of the Khoper Regiment’s stanitsas (Cossack villages) on the Azov–Mozdok Line. In 1825 the regiment was moved to the Kuban:…

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