Novgorod

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Coordinates: 58.5210, 31.2758 · On the full map →

Role in the family history

Near Novgorod Boris Aleksandrovich went missing on 15 August 1941; from near Novgorod he had written to his wife on 30 July 1941.

People

Events

1. 22 June 1941

   “Better to die than surrender”

   ◇ family testimonyNovgorod

In the chronicle

1. 1. The Name

   • …to it stand kalaushnik, a chatterbox or fibber, and the verb kalaushit, to beat. In Novgorod, Tver and Pskov governorates Dal recorded “KOLOUSHNIK… a gossip, tale-bearer, whisperer” and koloushnichat,…

2. 9. The Great Patriotic War

   • …(military technician) 2nd rank. On 30 July 1941 he wrote to his wife from near Novgorod; the family kept the letter:
   • His son traced four men who had served with his father. They told him that the division had fallen back from Novgorod by two roads and that the staff and the political department had taken the Leningrad highway. One of them,…

3. 12. The Chroniclers

   • …, a cinema technician, was mobilised on 22 June 1941 and in August that year, during the retreat from Novgorod, was reported missing. His eight-year-old son remembered the men gathering on the veranda…

On the family route

Nearby

• Gatchina134 km
• Izvara137 km
• Tsarskoye Selo142 km
• The Catherine Palace142 km
• The Alexander Palace143 km