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Tsarskoye Selo
Царское Селоnow PushkinSt Petersburg
- The family here: 1894 – 2005
- People: 6
On the map
Role in the family history
The Convoy’s main station under Nicholas II; farewell reviews of departing Convoy Cossacks and the Convoy centenary (1911); in 1949 the Pushkin museum in the Alexander Palace, in 2005 the Golden Pen ceremony in the Catherine Palace.
Names over time
Tsarskoye Selo
Pushkin
People6
Served here
- Andrey Ivanovich Kalaushin b. c. 1817–1819 Generation 31853 brother of the 4th great-grandfather
- Fyodor Andreyevich Kalaushin b. c. 1837 Generation 31877 first cousin six times removed
- Ivan Stepanovich Kalaushin 1860 – 1911 Generation 5 first cousin four times removed
- Mikhail Alekseyevich Kalaushin 9 July 1870 – 1912 Generation 5 first cousin four times removed
- Fedot Alekseyevich Kalaushin 1871 – 1920 Generation 51892–1900 first cousin four times removed
- Aleksandr Alekseyevich Kalaushin 1877 or 1878 – 1933 Generation 51904–1908 first cousin four times removed
Institutions3
Documents and photographs

◆ “Departure of Cossacks on leave”: the Convoy’s farewell review at Tsarskoye Selo, 31 May 1900 («Kavkaz», no. 150)Scan: National Parliamentary Library of Georgia, Iverieli digital library (copy on Wikimedia Commons)
Works and objects3
- Autumn Landscape. From the series Sister Earth02.05.1967the Tsarskoye Selo Collection Museum
- Landscape. A Dacha1979the Tsarskoye Selo Collection Museum
- The Little Ones’ Book (drawings by B. Kalaushin)1987the Historical and Literary Museum of the Town of Pushkin
In the chronicle
- …leave). In 1900 it took place on Wednesday, 31 May (13 June N.S.), in front of the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo: the Emperor “honoured each of them with gracious words” and handed out the Convoy service badges with his…
- …he served in St Petersburg in 1904–1908. The Convoy celebrated its centenary in May 1911 at Tsarskoye Selo; among the guests were delegations of the Kuban and Terek Hosts and a great many former Convoy men…
- …in St Petersburg, as uryadniks (Cossack non-commissioned officers) at Gatchina, in St Petersburg and at Tsarskoye Selo; and when the Convoy celebrated its centenary, one of them came as a member of the Kuban Host’s delegation.…
- …the deer park. After the death of Alexander III, in November 1894, the Court moved to Tsarskoye Selo, but the Life Guards 2nd Kuban Sotnia remained on duty at Gatchina. Under Nicholas II the…
- …was a ceremony. At the end of May trainloads of young Cossacks from the Kuban and the Terek arrived at Tsarskoye Selo, and by then the old Convoy men had finished their service. Old and young were presented to the Emperor…
- …the Convoy Cossacks leaving for home were drawn up on the square in front of the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo, facing the young Kuban and Terek Cossacks who had come to replace them. Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra…
- …. On 6 July there was a parade at Krasnoye Selo, on the 8th the Shah was taken to Tsarskoye Selo, and on the 10th, at the farewell luncheon, he gave the Emperor “a beautiful old sabre and his portrait”…
- Museums that inherited the court collections (Tsarskoye Selo, the Hermitage, the Moscow Kremlin Museums): the Cossack saddle and burka presented to the Tsesarevich…
- …the ruined estate of Mikhailovskoye after the war, helped open the Pushkin museum in the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo in the jubilee year of 1949, and became the first director of the All-Union Pushkin Museum. His name appears…
- …. On 10 June 1949 the first exhibition of the Pushkin Museum opened in the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo (then the town of Pushkin); the ribbon was cut by the President of the Academy of Sciences, S.I. Vavilov…
- …1900, and the “review on the last day” matches the farewell presentation of the departing Convoy Cossacks at Tsarskoye Selo on 31 May 1900, when the Emperor spoke a few words to each man and handed out the badges for service in the…
- …of defect-free production; △ the chronicle notes this echo as it notes the Tsarskoye Selo one — not as cause and effect but as a recurring motif. With Vyacheslav Olegovich the line begun by Trofim…
- …men took place on Wednesday, 31 May Old Style (13 June New Style), in front of the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo: the Emperor honoured each man who was leaving with “gracious words” and handed out the Convoy service…
- …sent a special envoy — a gift would then have travelled to Tehran rather than been shown at a review at Tsarskoye Selo.
14. Sources and Further Research
- …. In 1900 there was one such presentation: on 31 May (13 June), outside the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo, the Emperor spoke “gracious words” to every departing man and handed each the badge with his own hand…
- …of the Uman and Labinskaya workshops at the Kuban exhibition of 1902 (KM 7033/7). The Tsarskoye Selo Museum-Reserve: the Circassian saddle the museum acquired in 2021, and the presents to Tsesarevich…