Place · Settlement · Transcaucasia and the Kars region
Tiflis
Тифлисnow TbilisiGeorgia
- The family here: 1889–1916
- People: 8
On the map
Role in the family history
The Caucasus Exhibition of 1889 — the family’s earliest known award (“186. To Matvey Kalaushin — for a saddle and saddle straps”); the newspaper Kavkaz and the Caucasus Calendar were published here, and the staff of the Kuban Plastun Brigade (Nikita Ilyich) was stationed here.
People8
Named in roster entries
- Stefan (Stepan) Nikolayevich Kalaushin b. c. 1835 Generation 4 brother of the great-great-great-grandfather
- Varvara Petrovna Kalaushina b. 1916 Generation 5 second cousin four times removed
- Anna Fedotovna Pronina (née Kalaushina) 1895 – 1979 Generation 6 second cousin three times removed
- Nina 1909 – before 1990 Generation 6 third cousin three times removed
- Yelena c. 1925 – after 1990 Generation 6 third cousin three times removed
Events involving the family
- Ilya Nikolayevich Kalaushin (the first) b. c. 1845 Generation 41889 brother of the great-great-great-grandfather
- Matvey Alekseyevich Kalaushin 1867 – 1912 Generation 51889 first cousin four times removed
- Fedot Alekseyevich Kalaushin 1871 – 1920 Generation 51889 first cousin four times removed
Events
Institutions
Documents and photographs3

◆ "186. To Matvei Kalaushin — for a saddle and saddle straps" (Tiflis, 1889)Scan: National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, Iverieli digital library 
◆ Awards list, Dept XI (pedagogical and vocational), Tiflis 1889Scan: National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, Iverieli digital library 
Kinjal: Tbilisi mounts, Dagestani blade, c. 1845–65 — for illustrationThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (CC0)
In the chronicle
- …St Anna, 3rd class. The brigade headquarters was in Tiflis (Tbilisi); the Caucasus Calendar for 1914 spells his name “Kolaushin”, and its address section lists…
- …the ensign is not yet known. On 1 January 1916 a Nikolay Kalaushin was commissioned praporshchik from the Tiflis Military School into the 4th Reserve Plastun Sotnia; in May 1917 Khorunzhy Nikolay Kalaushin of the 10th…
- At the Caucasus Exhibition of 1889 in Tiflis the department received a diploma equivalent to a large silver medal “for articles of leather and metal…
- In the autumn of 1889 Tiflis (now Tbilisi) held the Caucasus Exhibition of Agriculture and Industry. In the list of exhibits from Kuban…
- On 17 November 1889 the Tiflis newspaper Kavkaz printed, in its list of bronze-level awards, Department IX (cottage-industry section):…
- …Plastun Battalion in 1900, by 1909 was senior adjutant of the headquarters of the Kuban Plastun Brigade in Tiflis (Tbilisi), and in the Great War was senior adjutant on the staff of the 1st Kuban Plastun Brigade on the…
- Nikolay Matveyevich may be the Nikolay Kalaushin who on 1 January 1916 left the Tiflis Military School as a praporshchik for the 4th Reserve Plastun Sotnia, and who in May 1917 was promoted from…
- …of the Kalaushins now live in Vladikavkaz, Yessentuki, Maykop, Nalchik, Nevinnomyssk, Omsk, St Petersburg, Tbilisi, Tolyatti, in Bekeshevskaya stanitsa “and even in the USA”. By its own rules, this…
- …found so far, Matvey Alekseyevich appears, in all likelihood, twice: at the Caucasus Exhibition of 1889 in Tiflis (Tbilisi) an award of bronze rank “for a saddle and saddle straps” went to “Matvey Kalaushin”, and at the…
- In March 1945 Geychenko came to Leningrad from Tbilisi at the Academy’s summons. The Academy’s vice-president, L.A. Orbeli, told him of the decision to send him to…
- …. Among the award lists found so far are four exhibitions with awards to Kalaushin masters: Tiflis (1889), Nizhny Novgorod (1896), the Voznesenskaya exhibition (1899) and Yekaterinodar (1902)…
- …“Search the Archives” (some three hundred hits for the surname and its variants). Newspapers: Kavkaz of Tiflis (National Parliamentary Library of Georgia), Kubanskiye Oblastnye Vedomosti, Russky Invalid, and Austrian…
- …. We found the masters’ exhibition awards — the first of them “for a saddle and saddle straps”, Tiflis, 1889 — and the exact days of 1900 to which the story of the Shah’s…
14. Sources and Further Research
- …on Yandex Archive Search, where a search for the surname and its variants gave 309 hits. Newspapers: the Tiflis Kavkaz from the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, Kubanskiye Oblastnye Vedomosti (the Kuban…
- Context. The award lists found so far record prizes for the Kalaushin masters at four exhibitions: Tiflis, 1889 (Matvey, “for a saddle and saddle straps”); Nizhny Novgorod, 1896 (a bronze medal to Fedot and Mikhail…
- …; the Georgian National Museum (the holdings of the former Caucasian Military History Museum in Tiflis), the Kutaisi Historical Museum and the Abkhaz State Museum in Sukhum — in Tiflis Matvey won the earliest of…
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On the family route
The masters’ exhibitions and schools
Tiflis: the Caucasus Exhibition of 1889 — the earliest award found
Nearby
- Vladikavkaz147 km
- Kutais183 km
- Nalchik218 km
- Mozdok226 km
- Petrovsk263 km