His Majesty’s Own Convoy

Description

The Cossack bodyguard of the Emperor; Kalaushins of Batalpashinskaya served in it from the mid-19th century until 1917.

Sub-units

• Life Guards 2nd Kuban Sotnia · 1 people

Kalaushins in His Majesty’s Own Convoy7

Awards4

• Medal “For the Conquest of the Western Caucasus”Fyodor Andreyevich1874◈ published source
• Bronze medal of the All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition of 1896Mikhail Alekseyevich1896◆ documented
• Bronze medal of the All-Russian Industrial and Art Exhibition of 1896Fedot Alekseyevich1896◆ documented
• Badge for service in the ConvoyFedot Alekseyevich1900◈ published source

Documents and photographs22

In the chronicle

1. 3. The Caucasian Line

   • …. According to the roster, his son Fyodor (b. c. 1837) was an uryadnik of the 1st squadron of His Majesty’s Own Convoy (hereafter the Convoy), the Cossack bodyguard of the Emperor, in 1877. Matrona and…
   • In 1832 a detachment of Caucasus Line Cossacks was formed within the Convoy, and from the mid-1830s chamber Cossacks (kamer-kazaki) — Cossacks in constant personal attendance on…
   • …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 vacant post of chamber Cossack to the Tsesarevna. He was to…
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2. 4. Service and Crosses

   • …cordon duty on the Kuban, the crosses of the Caucasian War, the battles of 1877 on Turkish soil, years in His Majesty’s Own Convoy (the Cossack bodyguard of the imperial family; hereafter the Convoy) and the officers’ commissions of the…
   • Alongside regimental service ran service in the Convoy; it is told in detail in the chapter “At Court”. In 1853 Andrey Kalaushin, an uryadnik of the 2nd Khoper…
   • A Cossack chosen for the Convoy had to buy, at his own expense and from the Host crafts school, a new Guards saddle whose pommels were…
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3. 5. At Court

   • …the family roster, called Uryadnik Andrey Kalaushin the first Cossack of the family to serve “in the Own Convoy that guarded the Imperial Family”, and its first — “perhaps its last” — chamber Cossack. The…
   • His Majesty’s Own Convoy (Sobstvenny Yego Imperatorskogo Velichestva Konvoy; hereafter the Convoy) was the Emperor’s Cossack…
   • …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 Cossack to the Tsesarevna,…
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4. 6. The Workshop

   • A Cossack went to serve on his own horse and in his own equipment. Even a man chosen for His Majesty’s Own Convoy (the Convoy, the Emperor’s Cossack bodyguard) had to buy, at his own expense and before leaving for the…
   • Three of them served in the Convoy. Mikhail Alekseyevich served there as a Cossack and as an uryadnik (a Cossack non-commissioned officer)…
   • N.V. Galushkin, an officer of the Convoy and its historian, writes that the Convoy officers’ saddles were supplied by “the Cossack Kalaushin of…
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5. 7. The Upheaval

   • …a first cousin of Pavel Aleksandrovich, was 46. Behind him lay eight years in His Majesty’s Own Convoy (the Cossack bodyguard of the Emperor), 1892–1900; a saddlery workshop and a draper’s shop…
   • The years point to 1900. Fedot Alekseyevich served in the Convoy from 1892 and was discharged by Kuban Host Order No. 60 of 17 June 1900, “retaining the Guards uniform and…
   • …June) 1900, on the square in front of the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoye Selo, came the farewell review of the Convoy Cossacks going home on lgota (into the reserve): the Emperor spoke a few gracious words to every one of them…
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6. 9. The Great Patriotic War

   • … was born in St Petersburg on 1 May 1904 Old Style (14 May New Style), in the barracks of His Majesty’s Own Convoy — the Cossack bodyguard of the Emperor — at 28 Shpalernaya Street, where his father, Aleksandr Alekseyevich,…
   • Aleksey Fedotovich, son of the Convoy Cossack and master saddler Fedot Alekseyevich, lived in Sukhumi and was also a driver. He was…

7. 10. Pushkin House

   • …the roster records Aleksandr Alekseyevich’s service as an uryadnik (Cossack non-commissioned officer) in His Majesty’s Own Convoy, the Emperor’s Cossack bodyguard, in 1904–1908, and the birth of his son Boris in the Convoy barracks on…
   • The years point to 1900. Fedot Alekseyevich served in the Convoy from 1892 and was discharged by Order No. 60 of the Kuban Cossack Host of 17 June 1900, “retaining the…
   • …on names. In the family account it is “Prince Trubetskoy” who reports the saddle to the Emperor. In 1900 the Convoy was commanded by Baron Alexander Meyendorff; Prince Georgy (Yury) Ivanovich Trubetskoy took command in 1906…

8. 11. The Artist

   • △ The years point to 1900. Fedot Alekseyevich served in His Majesty’s Own Convoy from 1892 and was discharged by Order No. 60 of the Kuban Cossack Host of 17 June 1900, and…

9. 12. The Chroniclers

   • …Fyodorovna, wife of Matvey Matveyevich; Yevdokiya Fyodorovna, wife of Aleksandr Alekseyevich, an uryadnik of His Majesty’s Own Convoy (the Emperor’s Cossack bodyguard; hereafter the Convoy), and her daughters Mariya and Lyudmila Aleksandrovna…
   • …came to Batalpashinskaya stanitsa as a young man, and that Aleksandr Alekseyevich served as an uryadnik of the Convoy in St Petersburg in 1904–1908. Note on the roster. The entry for Matvey Matveyevich…
   • …Kalaushin was born in 1932. He is a great-grandson of Aleksey Nikolayevich and a grandson of the Convoy uryadnik Aleksandr Alekseyevich. His father, Boris Aleksandrovich, a cinema technician, was…
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10. 13. Vyacheslav’s Line

    • …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 Empress Maria Alexandrovna, and…
    • Pavel Aleksandrovich’s first cousin, Fedot Alekseyevich Kalaushin, served from 1892 to 1900 in His Majesty’s Own Convoy (the Cossack bodyguard of the Emperor; hereafter the Convoy). In 1900 the farewell presentation of the…
    • The years point to 1900. Fedot Alekseyevich served in the Convoy from 1892 and was discharged by Order No. 60 of the Kuban Cossack Host of 17 June 1900, “retaining the…
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11. 14. Sources and Further Research

    • …, Yefim Mikhailovich, Nikita Ilyich. The archive of His Majesty’s Own Convoy — the Cossack bodyguard of the Emperor (fond number to be confirmed): Convoy orders for May–June 1900 and…
    • …family, and those for 1904 for the baptism of Boris Aleksandrovich, who, the family says, was born in the Convoy barracks on Shpalernaya Street.
    • …the Kubanskaya genealogiya databases: No. 156 of 7 June 1892, enrolling Fedot Alekseyevich in the Convoy; No. 5 of 13 January 1897, on his Mecklenburg medals; No. 60 of 17 June 1900, discharging him from the…
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