Place · River · The Khoper and the Don
the Khoper (river)
река ХопёрPenza, Saratov, Voronezh and Volgograd Oblasts
- The family here: 17th century – 1781
On the map
Role in the family history
A tributary of the Don along which the Khoper Cossacks — Don Cossacks of the upper settlements — lived until the regiment moved to the Caucasus in 1777–1781.
In the chronicle
- The earliest Kalaushin known to us from documents is Trofim Pakhomovich Kalaushin, a Cossack of the Khoper Regiment living in Stavropolskaya stanitsa (a Cossack village). In the family roster he appears as the…
- How the Kalaushins came to the Khoper Regiment has not yet been established. The name does not appear in the published transcriptions of the lists…
- …. Nothing is known of any kinship between them and the Khoper Kalaushins. △ If these readings are confirmed, they will show that the stem kalaush- gave rise to surnames…
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- …. He was born about 1737, some forty years before the Khoper Regiment left its river for the Caucasus, and he lived to be at least eighty-five. In 1825–1827 his sons…
- The Khoper Cossacks were the Don Cossacks who lived along the Khoper River. At the end of the 17th century, according to the map drawn by Count…
- In 1707–1708 the Khoper townships supported the rising of Kondraty Bulavin. A decree of 14 May 1711 ordered them to be moved to the…
- The Khoper Regiment came to the Azov–Mozdok Line in the autumn of 1777 and, together with dragoons, laid out the…
- …that the ancestor was “most likely a Don Cossack”; where Trofim came from before joining the Khoper Regiment may be shown by the regiment’s revision lists of 1795 and 1811.
- In 1824, at the request of General A.P. Yermolov, the government resolved to move the Khoper and Volga Cossack stanitsas “to the very border” with the mountain peoples. Under the…
- …early 20th century. This chapter tells the story of the Kalaushins’ service from V.G. Tolstov’s history of the Khoper Regiment, imperial orders, directories and newspapers — and from the family’s own memory.
- …Kalaushins were Khoper Cossacks. In 1815 the household of Trofim Pakhomovich lived in Stavropolskaya, one of the Khoper Regiment’s stanitsas (Cossack villages) on the Azov–Mozdok Line…
- …Regiment and infantry, went out to reconnoitre towards the village of Dayar and were attacked by the Turks. The Khoper men dismounted and, with the companies and batteries that came up, held the Dayar gorge all day; in the…
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- …served in the 3rd Khoper Regiment. The family recalled that the Revolution found him “when the Cossacks of the Khoper regiments were at war with Persia”. The Cossacks “routed the Persians” and came home by sea: they “arrived…
- …had been torn up and the small bridges burnt, and the line had to be repaired under fire. Shkuro writes that the Khoper men refused to be talked into killing their officers and instead warned them in secret that it was time to…
- …from files of the Central State Military History Archive (now RGVIA), from V.G. Tolstov’s History of the Khoper Regiment, and from the Caucasian and Kuban directories. He also…
- Note on the roster. Both the article and the roster begin the family with “the Khoper Cossack Aleksey Kalaushin (1791–1862)”. According to the documents of 1815–1827, the founder was Trofim…
- …the award lists and reports of the exhibitions of 1889, 1896, 1899, 1900 and 1902, V.G. Tolstov’s history of the Khoper Regiment and N.V. Galushkin’s book on the Convoy. The databases of the Central Archive of the Ministry of…
- Ivan Trofimovich (b. 1793, d. between 1849 and 1860) — a Cossack of the Khoper Regiment from 1810.
- …founder was “most likely a Don Cossack”; where the Kalaushins came from before they joined the Khoper Regiment is not yet known, as the chapter “The Name” explains. What is known is this: Batalpashinskaya…
- …1815 and by the service record cited in the roster. In October 1810, at seventeen, he began his service in the Khoper Regiment; in January 1839 he was discharged “into full retirement”, and in 1849, aged fifty-six, he was…
14. Sources and Further Research
- …roster, extracts from files of the Central State Military History Archive, V.G. Tolstov’s History of the Khoper Regiment, the Caucasus and Kuban calendars, a family photograph from his archive, and websites and databases…
- Clerks and typesetters wrote the name in many ways. In the History of the Khoper Regiment the uryadnik (Cossack non-commissioned officer) who distinguished himself at Dayar in 1877 is…
Nearby
- Novokhopyorsk fortress173 km
- Tsaritsyn189 km
- Voronezh317 km
- Rostov-on-Don327 km
- Azov351 km