About the chronicle

Vyacheslav Olegovich Kalaushin is the author of the chronicle and the owner of kalaushin.com. Born in St Petersburg. He finished school; he was into IT from childhood and after school, in his own words, “decided to try himself in the craft”. Early in 2018 he moved to Moscow, from there to Dubai and then to Abu Dhabi, where he lives today. Founder of Data Nexus.

His line runs through nine generations from the Khoper Cossack Trofim Pakhomovich (b. c. 1737), traced in the records. The last word on style and publication is his.

[◇ S003, 9 Oct 2026]

Projects

• Data Nexus — founder · since 2024 [◇ S003; ◆ S210]
• CyberEGE — a Data Nexus product, created by him and the team · 2024–2026 [◇ S003; ◆ S211; ◆ S210]
• NeuroFrame — a Data Nexus product, created by him and the team · since 2024 [◇ S003; ◆ S212; ◆ S210]
• Carfleet — a Data Nexus product, created by him and the team [◇ S003; ◆ S213; ◆ S210]
• Drive Your Dream — a Data Nexus client project (Dubai) · 2026 [◇ S003; ◆ S210; ◆ S214]
• EdWay — founder and co-owner · 2017–2019 · Delovoy Peterburg, 2019 [◆ S207; ◆ S205]
• EdCAS — founder; Tagline Awards 2019 bronze · 2019 · Tagline, 2019 [◆ S208; ◆ S209]

The Data Nexus products — CyberEGE, NeuroFrame, Carfleet — were created by him and the company’s team.

The author’s page in the chronicle →

The chronicle rests on the family roster Kalaushiny, which Aleksandr Borisovich Kalaushin compiled over more than forty years. It is published on the Philippov website (version 03.02 of 13 July 2025); without it this chronicle would not exist.

In 2026 the roster was checked against the documents of the period. Where a document refines an entry, the chronicle gives a Note on the roster — a short, respectful note beside the relevant passage: the entry number, what the roster says and what the document says.

• The roster Kalaushiny on the Philippov website (version 03.02 of 13 July 2025)
• A.B. Kalaushin’s page
• The roster in the list of sources (S001)

The chronicle rests on three layers: the family roster Kalaushiny, the documents of the period — revision tales, orders, newspapers, award lists — and the work of historians. Family memory is a full source in its own right: the family’s account comes first, in full and in the family’s words, and the documentary context follows in a separate paragraph — as a complement, not as a test.

Nothing is invented: every fact, date, quotation, number and reference comes from a saved source. No source, no fact. The chronicle has 215 sources, 398 images in the archive, 284 people and 140 events.

Every reference carries a mark and a word: ◆ documented, ◈ published source, ◇ family testimony, △ hypothesis. Colour is never the only signal. The same book may supply different classes: the roster is ◈ where it quotes an archival reference and ◇ where it passes on a family account.

Two family accounts — the saddle for the Shah of Persia made in Fedot Alekseyevich’s workshop and the parade commission for Archduke Franz Ferdinand — are confirmed by relatives and recorded in the family history. Everywhere they carry the label “◇ family testimony · confirmed by relatives”; the saddle is dated to spring–early summer 1900 (△ hypothesis · dating).

Dates before 1 (14) February 1918 are Old Style; New Style is added in brackets where useful: 4–10 (17–23) July 1900. In references, dates are written DD.MM.YYYY.

The English edition is an edited text with the same facts and references. Names follow a readable BGN/PCGN system (Kalaushin, Batalpashinskaya, Khoper, uryadnik, stanitsa); monarchs and well-known places keep their established English forms (Nicholas II, St Petersburg, Tiflis).

For relatives who may be living (born in 1940 or later with no known date of death), the chronicle gives only the name and the relationship: no dates, places, addresses, employers or photographs. The exception is a public role: the author of the site and his father, the motoring journalist Oleg Vyacheslavovich Kalaushin.

For people born in 1925–1939 with no date of death: name, relationship, year of birth and public role. Post-1917 addresses and telephone numbers are never published; roster entry No. 202 is reproduced by name only.

Everything found is on the site, in the fullest lawful form. Public-domain material, free licences and material used with permission are shown in full, each with a caption — “What is shown. Place, date. — Source; rights” — and a rights line. Document scans are marked ◆; objects shown for comparison are captioned as not Kalaushin pieces.

What is still protected is shown as a card without the image itself: title, date, who and what is shown, holder, reference and a “View at the source” link, marked “image held by the rights holder — permission requested”. Photographs of living people are published only with their consent.

The most important papers may be kept not in an archive but at home. Please send scans of photographs, front and back — above all the original formal portrait of Fedot Alekseyevich, where the lowest badge on his chest has not yet been identified — documents (a purveyor’s certificate, exhibition diplomas, the badge for service in the Convoy, deeds to the houses), objects bearing marks, and written accounts of the saddle for the Shah and the Archduke’s commission.

Every account will appear as family testimony, in the teller’s words and, if he or she wishes, with the teller’s name; of relatives born in 1940 or later only the name and relationship are given, photographs of living people appear only with consent, and addresses and telephone numbers are never published.

Quality. Exclusivity. System.

The motto “Quality. Exclusivity. System.” was chosen by the chronicle’s author; behind each trait stand the words of the sources themselves, not praise of the family. It is a recurring motif, not heredity: where there is no document, no trait is marked.

Quality

The work itself — a saddle, a blade, a troop, a painting, a road test — judged not by the family but by those who know the trade: an exhibition jury, an inspecting officer, a museum, a professional jury.

“for a saddle and saddle straps” (1889) · “a Cossack saddle of elegant workmanship” (1899) · “with distinction” (1914)

Exclusivity

Being chosen — for the sovereign’s own guard, for the Court, for the List of Purveyors, for a gift to a shah — and making things for the few. Not a self-assessment: the choice of those who had a choice.

“it is the wish of His Imperial Highness the Heir Tsesarevich” (1853) · “excellent and zealous service” (1900) · choosing the deputation for the Convoy’s centenary, of the insignia: “the more, the better” (1911)

System

The habit of making quality repeatable: teaching the craft, devising a tool, writing the method down, keeping the inventory, spending decades on the family record.

“the invention of the master of the saddlery section” (1902) · exhibition guidelines (1936–1940) · “a system of defect-free production” (1965)

What we do not claim

• We do not claim that the traits are inherited, or that one generation “caused” the next: the chronicle notes a recurring motif — just as “Vyacheslav’s Line” notes the Tsarskoye Selo echo.
• No workshop piece bearing the Kalaushin name has yet been identified in museum catalogues: the thesis rests on awards, commissions and the words of contemporaries, not on “surviving saddles”.
• The Paris and London prizes are family memory; the award lists found so far cover four exhibitions of 1889–1902. Never mention Paris and London without the ◇ label.
• N.V. Galushkin does not name the master who supplied the Convoy officers’ saddles — his line is not attributed to any one brother.
• The 1915 List names Fedot Alekseyevich; Matvey Alekseyevich’s title is family memory (the inscription on his grave); the date of the grant is not known.
• The Tretyakov Gallery is named among Boris Matveyevich’s collections by the family biography and the All-Russian Pushkin Museum; we have not yet seen its records, so it is not used in the thesis.
• “39 museums” is the family’s figure; the published study says “more than 30”. The thesis uses “more than 30”.
• Matvey Matveyevich was not director of the Pushkin Reserve: he oversaw it and recommended its director.
• The 1965 brochure is about introducing a system of defect-free production at a bakery, not about inventing one; the cover names no author, and Mikhail Pavlovich’s authorship rests on the RSL and NLR catalogues and the roster.
• Vyacheslav Mikhailovich: the Military Transport Academy is where he served; what he did there is not recorded, so no trait is assigned to him.
• Oleg Vyacheslavovich: 1995–2019 at the magazine is the family’s account; the pieces found date from 2000.
• We do not credit the family with the chronicle’s own method — the 2026 review, the source classes: trait marks on chapters rest only on evidence about members of the family.
• A rare surname is a circumstance, not a merit.
• The author’s present work — from his own words and the public pages of his projects [◇ S003; ◆ S210]. He calls CyberEGE, NeuroFrame and Carfleet “our” products — he and the Data Nexus team created them; we credit none of them to him alone.
• The likeness between Data Nexus’s rules and the 1965 brochure is our observation, not a handed-down method.
• “Exclusivity” is the trait label chosen by the site’s author; we do not call members of the family “exceptional”: the trait rests only on choices others made — the Court, the Convoy, clients, juries.

Kalaúshin — stress on the third syllable, on the u (ka-la-OO-shin); this is how the family says it. [kəlɐˈuʂɨn]

• Калаушины family name, plural (the family)
• Калаушин surname, masculine
• Калаушина surname, feminine
• Калау́шин stress-marked form [◇ S003; ◈ S188, «Калаушин»]
• Калаушинъ pre-1918 spelling [◆ S058, 1910, ч. 2, стб. 497]
• Калоушин spelling in documents [◆ S010, № 155 (1830); ◆ S022, по S174]
• Колоушин spelling in documents; Vladikavkaz branch [◆ S053, Прил. 74, с. 231–232 (1877); ◈ S001, № 46, 102; ◆ S015, д. 18 (1903)]
• Колаушин spelling in documents [◆ S058, 1914]
• Калаушен spelling in documents [◈ S011 (1831)]
• Келаушин misprint recorded in the roster («Келаушин 1-й») [◈ S001, № 92]
• Kalaushin transliteration (BGN/PCGN, readable)
• Kalaushina feminine form, kept in English
• the Kalaushins the family
• Kalaushiny transliterated plural (title of the roster)
• Kalaúshin stress-marked form
• Kalaušin scholarly transliteration used in library authority files (GND)
• Kalauschin German transliteration (Wikidata alias for Boris Kalaushin)
• Koloushin transliteration of Колоушин
• Kaloushin transliteration of Калоушин
• Kolaushin transliteration of Колаушин

• Голоушин / Голоушев (Goloushin / Goloushev). A different root (golov-, golo-) according to the dictionaries of surnames; in the family’s documents the name is always spelt with a K. The family remembers Yuliya Matveyevna Kalaushina’s correspondence with the artist S.S. Goloushev about the origins of the name. [◈ S201, с. 128; ◈ S203, ст. «Голоушев»; ◇ S001, № 123]
• Калаушев (Kalaushev). A name found in 19th- and early 20th-century Irkutsk Governorate and Yakutsk Oblast; no kinship with the Khoper Kalaushins is known. [◈ S160, машинное чтение, 08.10.2026]

Chapter “The Name” →