Kazan

On the map

Coordinates: 55.7908, 49.1144 · On the full map →

Role in the family history

On 7 August 1918 the General Staff Academy, where Aleksey Matveyevich was a student, went over to the Whites here.

People

Events

1. 18 November 1918

   “At the disposal of Colonel Kappel”

   ◆ documentedKazan

In the chronicle

1. 2. The Khoper

   • …From the oak and ash that then covered the hills around, the Khoper Cossacks built a church dedicated to the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, whose feast falls on 22 October — the day the regiment arrived in 1777…
   • GAAO (State Archive of Astrakhan Oblast), f. 599: parish registers of the Kazan church of Stavropolskaya for 1800–1805, 1808, 1810 and 1812, and confessional registers before 1825 — the…

2. 3. The Caucasian Line

   • GAAO (State Archive of Astrakhan Oblast), f. 599: parish registers of the Kazan church of Stavropolskaya for 1800–1812 (births of Afanasy and Andrey) and the stanitsa’s confessional…

3. 8. Exile

   • …intake, 1918. Col., podyesaul. 1918, Red Army; 1918–1920, Eastern Front”. On 7 August 1918 Kazan was taken by the People’s Army; the head of the Academy, A.I. Andogsky, went over to the Whites together…

4. 14. Sources and Further Research

   • …widow and the family is in its new home. The same fond holds the parish registers of the Kazan church of Stavropolskaya from the early 19th century, which may record the births of Afanasy and Andrey…

On the family route

Nearby

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