the Khoper Cossack Regiment

Description

The regiment of the Khoper Cossacks: moved from the Khoper to the Caucasus Line in 1777, it founded Stavropol; later the 1st Khoper Regiment of the Kuban Host.

Sub-units

• the 1st Khoper Regiment · 1 people
• the 2nd Khoper Regiment
• the 3rd Khoper Regiment · 1 people

Kalaushins in the Khoper Cossack Regiment4

Awards2

• Insignia of the Military Order (the soldiers’ St George Cross)Stefan Nikolayevich1859◆ documented
• Order of St AnnaStepan Yegorovich1915◈ published source

Documents and photographs8

In the chronicle

1. 1. The Name

   • The Kalaus is firmly linked with the Khoper Cossacks. As V.G. Tolstov writes, after the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca of 1774 “it was determined that our border in…
   • …“Chilli buolat”. In the sound of the word one also hears the Kalaus, by whose headwaters the Khoper Cossacks lived for almost half a century, from 1777 to 1825.
   • …the river was known to Russians as early as 1627, it is mentioned in the Donskie dela in 1640, and in 1777 the Khoper Cossacks came precisely “to the tracts of Tashla and Kalaus”. Against it: in every source we have found the river’s…

2. 2. The Khoper

   • …family on to the Kuban, to the new stanitsa of Batalpashinskaya. This chapter is about him, his children and the Khoper Cossacks among whom they lived.
   • The Khoper Cossacks were the Don Cossacks who lived along the Khoper River. At the end of the…
   • In 1717, 94 former Khoper Cossacks with their families and 125 cherkasy — Cossacks of the Little Russian sloboda regiments — enrolled to settle…
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   ¶ 6¶ 7¶ 9¶ 10¶ 17¶ 29¶ 36-7

3. 3. The Caucasian Line

   • The first Kalaushins whom the records name were Khoper Cossacks of the Caucasus Line. In 1815 an old Cossack, Trofim Pakhomovich Kalaushin, was living with his family in…
   • …Stavropol fortress was meant “to guard the passage along the valley of the Kalaus River”, and the Khoper Cossacks lived by the upper reaches of that river for half a century, from 1777 to 1825…
   • The regimental historian V.G. Tolstov writes that the Khoper Cossacks began moving in instalments in the autumn of 1825, “and however hard they tried to reach the new places…
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   ¶ 46

4. 4. Service and Crosses

   • In October 1810 Ivan Trofimovich Kalaushin, then seventeen, entered the Khoper Cossack Regiment. A little over a century later his descendants and kinsmen were serving as staff adjutants and assistant…
   • The Kalaushins were Khoper Cossacks. In 1815 the household of Trofim Pakhomovich lived in Stavropolskaya, one of the Khoper Regiment’s stanitsas…
   • …fortification just as a herd of ration cattle was being driven to water under the cover of twenty-five Khoper Cossacks and a rifle company. The raiders cut off half the herd and drove it across the Malaya Laba. Two Khoper…
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   ¶ 8¶ 30

5. 5. At Court

   • …genealogiya gives 13 January. Mecklenburg awards were nothing new to the Khoper Cossacks. From 1879 the honorary chief of the 1st Khoper Regiment was Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna, wife of…
   • …Cossacks who had come as replacements — 58 from the Kuban and 45 from the Terek; among the Kubans were ten Khoper Cossacks from the escort of the late Tsesarevich, Grand Duke George Alexandrovich. With their backs to the palace…

6. 6. The Workshop

   • …buolat”. The word also carries an echo of the Kalaus River, in whose upper reaches the Khoper Cossacks lived from 1777 to 1825.

7. 7. The Upheaval

   • …the front against Turkish troops, while Kurdish bands raided their rear. There were many Khoper Cossacks among them: the 1st Khoper Regiment belonged to the 1st Caucasian Cossack Division, the 3rd to the…
   • …Persian port of Enzeli to Petrovsk (now Makhachkala) on the steamer that carried the 3rd Khoper Regiment; the Khoper Cossacks hid him in the hold. From Petrovsk the regiment travelled by troop train through Grozny; in places the track…

8. 9. The Great Patriotic War

   • By the summer of 1941 the grandsons and great-grandsons of the Khoper Cossacks no longer lived only in Cherkessk, as the former stanitsa (Cossack village) of Batalpashinskaya had been…

9. 12. The Chroniclers

   • …“Chilli buolat” — and the word also echoes the Kalaus River, near whose headwaters the Khoper Cossacks lived from 1777 to 1825 (see the chapter “The Workshop”). ◇ The family remembered that the workshop’s pieces…

10. 13. Vyacheslav’s Line

    • …part and centre were settled by people from Stavropolskaya, and by late autumn 1827 the Khoper Cossacks had “finally hauled themselves” to their new homes; Trofim’s family moved from…

11. 14. Sources and Further Research

    • …for 1848. F. 1300, op. 1, d. 413 (ff. 7v–8) — on the founding of Batalpashinskaya on 1 October 1825 by Khoper Cossacks moved from Stavropolskaya and Vorovskolesskaya.
    • …“Chilli buolat”; and the word also echoes the Kalaus River, near whose upper reaches the Khoper Cossacks lived in 1777–1825. Context. In 1903 Kubanskiye Oblastnye Vedomosti, listing…

12. 8. Exile