the 2nd Khoper Regiment

Description

A regiment based at Batalpashinskaya; Kalaushins served in it in the Russo-Turkish War of 1877.

Part of

the Khoper Cossack Regiment

Kalaushins in the 2nd Khoper Regiment4

Awards7

• Insignia of the Military Order (the soldiers’ St George Cross)Ilya Nikolayevich1877◆ documented
• Insignia of the Military Order (the soldiers’ St George Cross)Yegor Afanasyevich1877◆ documented
• Order of St StanislausAfanasy Yegorovich1905◆ documented
• Order of St AnnaStepan Yegorovich1909◆ documented
• Order of St VladimirStepan Yegorovich1915◆ documented
• Order of St AnnaStepan Yegorovich1915◈ published source
• Order of St AnnaStepan Yegorovich1916◆ documented

Documents and photographs4

In the chronicle

1. 1. The Name

   • …For the battle of Dayar on 9 June 1877, in the Russo-Turkish War, two Cossacks of the family serving in the 2nd Khoper Regiment received the Insignia of the Military Order, 4th class: Uryadnik (Cossack non-commissioned officer) Yegor…
   • According to the roster, the Caucasus Calendar once printed Yegor Afanasyevich’s sons, the 2nd Khoper Regiment officers Afanasy Yegorovich (Georgiyevich) and Stepan Yegorovich (Georgiyevich)…

2. 2. The Khoper

   • Note on the roster. The roster says that Ivan began his service “in Batalpashinskaya stanitsa, in the 2nd Khoper Regiment, 5th Brigade”. In 1810 the Khoper Regiment was still a single regiment, Batalpashinskaya appeared only in…

3. 3. The Caucasian Line

   • …. Note on the roster. The roster says that he began his service “in Batalpashinskaya stanitsa in the 2nd Khoper Regiment, 5th Brigade”. In 1810 the family was living in Stavropolskaya; Batalpashinskaya appeared in 1825, and the…
   • Ivan’s youngest son, Gavriil, was born around 1831. According to the roster he took the oath in 1851, joined the 2nd Khoper Regiment as a Cossack in 1854, was promoted uryadnik in 1858, and held the bronze medal in memory of the War of…
   • …informed Prince Eristov, nakazny (appointed) ataman of the Caucasus Line Cossack Host, that “Uryadnik of the 2nd Khoper Regiment Andrey Kalaushin”, then serving “in His Highness’s Own Convoy” and on leave in the Caucasus, was to fill the…
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4. 4. Service and Crosses

   • …stanitsa, and from 1845, when the Khoper Regiment was split in two, it was the headquarters of “their own” 2nd Khoper Regiment.
   • Note on the roster. The roster says that Ivan began his service in Batalpashinskaya stanitsa, in the 2nd Khoper Regiment of the 5th Brigade. In 1810 the regiment was still a single unit, Batalpashinskaya did not yet exist, and…
   • …on the Trans-Kuban cordon line and in 1868 in the Horse Training Division, and in 1869 became an uryadnik of the 2nd Khoper Regiment. △ The 17th Horse Regiment of the Kuban Host was the former…
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5. 5. At Court

   • …wrote that it was the wish of His Imperial Highness the Heir Tsesarevich that Uryadnik Andrey Kalaushin of the 2nd Khoper Regiment, who was serving in the Convoy and was then on leave in the Caucasus, should fill the vacant post of chamber…

6. 12. The Chroniclers

   • …to Istorichesky Cherkessk, Kalaushin names appear among the holders of the St George Cross on the banner of the 2nd Khoper Regiment in the Church of the Intercession, and on a pennant listing the men of Batalpashinskaya killed in the First…

7. 13. Vyacheslav’s Line

   • In 1853 Nikolay Ivanovich’s brother Andrey Ivanovich (in the roster, Andrey Alekseyevich), an uryadnik of the 2nd Khoper Regiment serving in the Heir’s Convoy, was appointed chamber Cossack (kamer-kazak) to the Tsesarevna, the future…

8. 14. Sources and Further Research

   • Regimental lists and service records. F. 408, op. 1, d. 498 and 15097 — officer lists of the 2nd Khoper Regiment as of 1 January 1914 and 10 March 1915; scans of these and of the officer list of the 3rd Khoper Regiment as…
   • …for 1898–1899, for example, a witness at a wedding is “Stefan Georgiyev Kalaushin, khorunzhy of the 2nd Khoper Regiment” (a khorunzhy was the lowest Cossack officer rank, roughly a cornet). The minutes…