Гуманитарные и юридические исследования (Sep 2021)
RETURNING THE NAMES OF THE HEROES OF THE FORGOTTEN EPOCH (ON COMPLETE ST. GEORGE CAVALIERS OF THE LINE COSSACKS OF THE KUBAN DURING THE CAUCASIAN WAR)
Abstract
The article discusses the plot devoted to the complete St. George cavaliers from the line Cossack's regiments of the Kuban in Caucasian War period. This problem still remains in the category of little-studied. The imperial historiography of the Kuban did not pay due attention to the ordinary Cossacks, who were awarded the military order of St. George for their many years struggle against the highlanders. In practice, it turns out that there were no systematic accounting of heroes and relevant statistics for Cossack's regiments and villages. The unknown author of a note published in a regional newspaper in 1869 included the retired Cossack Ivan Chernyshev from the 1-st (Caucasian) brigade and the retired Cossack's sergeant Martyn Bratukhin from the 2-nd (Kuban) brigade of the Kuban Cossack's army among the complete cavaliers who were still alive at that time. According to various documents found in central and regional archives, it turned out that the Cossack Ivan Chernyshev was nott the complete cavalier. In spite of the found mistake it could be possible to identify another hero of the passed epoch. Such holder of a prestige award was a Cossack's oficer (sotnik) Ivan Sesekin. It is interesting to stress that both heroes originated from stanitsa Prochnookopskaya. This Cossack's village was well-known as a greatest centre of Old Believers who conflicted with Orthodox clergy. At the same time, Cossacks-Old Believers showed themselves very noticeably in a long-term war with the highlanders. About more than a hundred St. George cavaliers and about three dozen Cossack's oficers originated from stanitsa Prochnookopskaya and they gloriied many times the Caucasian Line, and later the Kuban Cossack Army. The theme devoted to the St. George cavaliers of the Cossack's regiments of the Kuban in Caucasian War period still requires additional research efforts.
