Kubekov Aleksandr (Magomed) Nikolaevich (~1839)
probably great-great-great-grandfather of Igor’s wife — father of Vera Aleksandrovna Kubekova
Birth: ABT 1839
Name variants: Kubekov Magomed (Magomet) — name before baptism; Kubekov Magomed Magomedovich (family inscription on the photo)
A prince from a Nogai family of the Kuban Oblast (S375). As a cadet of the Life-Guards Caucasian Squadron of His Majesty’s Convoy — where the sons of the Caucasian nobility served — “Prince Magomed Kubekov” was commissioned ensign in the infantry in December 1860 (S388).
Served in the 130th Kherson Infantry Regiment of the Kiev Military District: second lieutenant (1864), lieutenant (1866), staff captain (1871); in 1870 he received the Order of St Stanislaus, 3rd class, “with the insignia established for non-Christians” — he was then a Muslim (S376, S377, S389). In 1874 the same staff captain is recorded as “Prince Aleksandr Kubekov” and awarded the Order of St Anna with the usual insignia: between 1871 and 1874 he apparently converted, taking the name Aleksandr, and received the patronymic Nikolaevich, probably from his godfather (S389). There is no second Kubekov in the regiment in these years.
In the Russo-Turkish War Captain Prince Kubekov was wounded on 24 August 1877 in the battle at Katselevo and Ablanovo in Bulgaria (S378) and was awarded the Order of St Stanislaus, 2nd class, with swords “for distinguished courage and bravery” in the Rushchuk Detachment. From 1879 he was assistant to the head of the Kiev uniform workshop; on 1 June 1882 he was dismissed for illness as a major, with uniform and full pension (S389).
From the 1890s until 1916 he lived in Kiev on Laboratornaya Street (houses 4 and 6; house 6 belonged to his wife), was a member of the city duma, of its audit commission and of the commission on the quartering of troops, and requisitioner of the fire train (S160, S300, S379). His daughters Vera and Lidia studied at the Kiev Institute as boarders of the Alexander Committee for the Wounded (S382). He is no longer in the Kiev directories of 1925–1928; when and where he died is unknown.
In a family photograph from Konoshevich’s studio in Kiev, an elderly staff officer is inscribed “Kubekov Magomed Magomedovich — great-grandfather of L. P. Zamyatina” (S144): the family remembered his Muslim name. The patronymic “Magomedovich” comes from the family inscription; in documents he is Nikolaevich. Second Lieutenant Vladimir Nikolaevich Kubekov from the Kuban, who died around 1870–1872, was probably his brother: his inheritance in 1873 was confirmed to Staff Captain Kubekov (S380, S390).
Why “probably”: that Magomed and Aleksandr are one man follows from continuous service in the same regiment, but there is no baptismal record; that he is the father of Vera and the other children is inferred from patronymics, title, address and the rank of “retired major”. The 1882 service record will confirm it (RGVIA, p/s 372-297; request — requests/06_RGVIA_Kubekov.md).
Sources
- S144 . Photo: Kubekov Magomed Magomedovich, great-grandfather of L.P. Zamyatina (Konoshevich’s photo studio, Kyiv) — Saved copy
- S154. Death record: Prince Alexander Alexandrovich Kubekov (Prince Alexandre Koubekoff), Sarreguemines, 1981 — Original — Saved copy
- S160 . “All Kyiv” for 1899: Prince Alexander Nikolaevich Kubekov, a retired major, and Princess Lyubov Ivanovna Kubekova — Original — Saved copy
- S300. Kiev Governorate commemorative books for 1904 and 1909: Princess Maria Alexandrovna Kubekova and Prince Alexander Nikolaevich Kubekov, Laboratornaya 6 — Original
- S375. Service record: Prince Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kubekov, 1878, “of the princes of the Nogai tribe of the Kuban Oblast” (RGVIA, c. 1914) — Original — Saved copy
- S376. “Russky Invalid”, 1866: Lieutenant Prince Magomet-Kubekov, 130th Kherson Infantry Regiment — Original — Saved copy
- S377. “Russky Invalid”, 1870: Order of St Stanislaus, 3rd class, with the insignia for non-Christians, to Lieutenant Prince Magomed Kubekov — Original — Saved copy
- S378. “Description of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78”, vol. 4: Captain Prince Kubekov, 130th Kherson Regiment, wounded on 24 August 1877 — Original — Saved copy
- S379. Memorial books of the Kiev Governorate for 1900 and 1901: Princesses Olimpiada Aleksandrovna and Vera Aleksandrovna Kubekova — employees of the Kiev Orphans’ Court — Original — Saved copy
- S380. Podporuchik Vladimir Nikolaevich Kubekov (d. 1870): inheritance in the stanitsa of Podgornaya and a granted estate in the Batalpashinsk district of the Kuban Oblast — Original — Saved copy
- S382. “Russky Invalid”, 1891 and 1894: Princesses Vera and Lidia, daughters of the retired major Prince Kubekov, — boarders of the Alexander Committee for the Wounded at the Kiev Institute — Original
- S388. “Russky Invalid”, 1860: Prince Magomed Kubekov, cadet of the Caucasian Squadron of His Majesty’s Convoy, commissioned as ensign — Original — Saved copy
- S389. “Russky Invalid” and “Senate Gazette”, 1864–1882: the service of Prince Magomed (from 1874 Aleksandr) Kubekov in the 130th Kherson Infantry Regiment and his retirement as a major — Original — Saved copy
- S390. “Kuban Regional Gazette”, 1873–1880: the inheritance of Second Lieutenant Vladimir Kubekov and the land of Lieutenant Prince Kubekov — Original
