Labinskaya stanitsa

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Coordinates: 44.6333, 40.7333 · On the full map →

Role in the family history

Founded in 1841–1842; here, in 1861, Alexander II asked: “Do you remember Kalaushin?” The stanitsa of Matvey, Mikhail and Aleksandr Alekseyevich, with the Kalaushins’ house, shop, workshops and garden; birthplace of the Pushkin scholar M.M. Kalaushin (memorial plaque at 1 Khalturina St).

Names over time

1. 1841–1947

   Labinskaya

People16

Events8

1. 1841–1842

   Labinskaya stanitsa is founded

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2. 18–19 September 1861

   “Do you remember Kalaushin?”

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3. 30 September 1903

   “Kalaus steel”

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4. 23 July (5 August) 1904

   Birth of Matvey Matveyevich Kalaushin

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5. 1910

   Matvey Alekseyevich at Labinskaya

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6. 1911–1912

   The parade commission for Archduke Franz Ferdinand

   ◇ family testimony · confirmed by relatives

   Labinskaya stanitsa

7. 1912

   The family loses two masters

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8. 1916

   A house with a power plant and a cinema

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Institutions2

• the Labinskaya Military Crafts SchoolSchool
• the F.I. Moiseyenko Labinsk Museum of HistoryMuseum

Documents and photographs11

Works and objects2

• Daggers “of Kalaus steel”early 20th century
• The parade set for Archduke Franz Ferdinandprobably 1911–1912

In the chronicle

1. 3. The Caucasian Line

   • …how long his service at court lasted is not yet known. In 1861, receiving a deputation of Line Cossacks at Labinskaya, Alexander II asked Potsvirov, an old uryadnik of his own Convoy, “And do you remember Kalaushin?” — and, on…
   • The stanitsa of Labinskaya, which also belongs to the family’s story, was founded at the Makhoshevskoye fortification in 1841–1842; in…

2. 4. Service and Crosses

   • …, did not join the Convoy: the family remembered that he served in a Cossack regiment at Labinskaya but was not taken into the Convoy “because he was too short”.

3. 5. At Court

   • …in the Caucasus, and on 18–19 September he visited the fortifications of the Laba Line and the stanitsa of Labinskaya. At Labinskaya he received a deputation from six Line Cossack brigades — 60 officers and 240…
   • …brothers served in the Convoy. Matvey Alekseyevich, as the family remembers, served in a Cossack regiment at Labinskaya, “but not in the Convoy, because he was short”: the Convoy took tall men.

4. 6. The Workshop

   • …The family’s long ties with crafts schools — first at Batalpashinskaya, later the Military Crafts Schools at Labinskaya and Maykop, where the Alekseyevich brothers taught (see below) — echo in the family’s words about the…
   • ◇ family testimony. The family remembers the title for Matvey Alekseyevich too: his grave in Labinskaya bore the words “Purveyor to the Court of His Majesty”. Relatives also remembered “a great…
   • Documentary note. On its walks along the former Aleksandrovsky Prospekt, the Labinsk museum still tells the story of “the house and shop of the brothers Kalaushin, Purveyors to the Imperial…
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5. 7. The Upheaval

   • …In 1916, according to his youngest daughter Lyudmila, he bought the Zlygosteva house in Labinskaya “together with a power station and a cinema”, where his son Boris showed the films.
   • …She was rescued by their daughter Mariya, then still a girl, who ran through the streets of Labinskaya after the column and talked the guard into letting her mother go for one gold coin, saying that her mother…
   • …while still at the labour school, as a projectionist at the cinema of the district executive committee in Labinskaya — so his labour book records. It was the very cinema that had belonged to the family before the Revolution…

6. 8. Exile

   • As his great-grandson N.G. Firtich writes, Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin, a master saddler of Labinskaya stanitsa (a Cossack village; now the town of Labinsk), had nine children, and the family motto was “No feeling is…
   • …was born, according to the roster, in 1894 at Kutais (Kutaisi). He finished the Labinskaya gymnasium and the Yelisavetgrad Cavalry School, from which an Imperial Order of 1 October 1914 commissioned…
   • …of journalism by Colonel S.A. Fedorov (Lantukh). Sergey Alekseyevich Fedorov was born on 13 January 1891 in Labinskaya stanitsa, served as a khorunzhy in the 2nd Kuban Plastun Battalion and in 1911 began to write for the newspaper…
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7. 9. The Great Patriotic War

   • …a Cossack non-commissioned officer. He worked as a cinema projectionist, first in Labinskaya and later at Lenfilm; in June 1940 he was transferred as a technician to the cinema administration at…

8. 10. Pushkin House

   • Matvey Matveyevich was born on 23 July 1904 Old Style (5 August New Style) in the stanitsa of Labinskaya in Kuban Oblast, now the town of Labinsk. His father, Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin…
   • …medals at world exhibitions in Paris and London”. Matvey Alekseyevich’s grave at Labinskaya bore the words “Purveyor to the Court of His Majesty”.
   • In 1913 Matvey entered the Labinskaya gymnasium, from which he graduated in 1922.
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9. 11. The Artist

   • Boris was born in Leningrad on 6 August 1929. His father, the son of the Labinskaya saddler, worked from 1931 at Pushkin House — the Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences — where…

10. 12. The Chroniclers

    • …— one of them is quoted below, under “Documents” — and recalled the children playing in the house at Labinskaya, bought in 1916, rolling gold coins across the floor until they slipped into the cracks under the window…
    • In Labinsk a memorial plaque to Matvey Matveyevich was placed on No. 1, Khalturina Street, on the initiative of the…
    • …128); papers of the exhibition “Our First Director” (2004) at the All-Russian Pushkin Museum; the date the Labinsk memorial plaque was unveiled (Labinsk Museum).

11. 14. Sources and Further Research

    • …. Ff. R-158 and R-102 — papers of 1920 on Batalpashinskaya. The parish registers of Labinskaya for 1912 — the deaths of Matvey and Mikhail Alekseyevich. Kubanskiye Oblastnye Vedomosti for 1897 and for…
    • …the workshop, or a photograph of it, may be kept. The F.I. Moiseyenko Museum of History and Local Lore in Labinsk: we ask about a harness ring (LM KP 30/305), the photograph albums of 1905 and 1911 (LM KP 542, 541) and any…
    • …makers’ marks; the National Museum in Prague — Karel Chotek’s negatives of 1908 showing the market of Labinskaya (OAE_n2134); the Georgian National Museum (the holdings of the former Caucasian Military History…
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On the family route

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