Замятин Пётр (?), классный фельдшер на Кавказе

probable ancestor of the wife’s Zamyatin line (father of the Zamyatin brothers — a hypothesis)

Name variants: medical orderly Zamyatin

A military medical orderly in the Caucasus. On 21 August 1866 Zamyatin, medical orderly of the Caucasian line battalion no. 23, was promoted to Collegiate Registrar (S745) — from this rank his children counted as “sons of a junior officer”. In 1878 Zamyatin, class medical orderly of the Gorsko-Mozdok cavalry regiment of the Terek Cossack host, received the rank of Collegiate Secretary; in 1885 Collegiate Secretary Zamyatin, class medical orderly of the 1st Caucasian cavalry regiment of the Kuban Cossack host, was discharged due to illness; in 1895 the newspaper “Kavkaz” reports an allowance to the “widow of the class medical orderly Zamyatina”. No first name appears in any of these notices; that they refer to one man is probable.

A published extract on the Gorsko-Mozdok Regiment in 1877 names medical feldsher “Pyotr Karpov Zamyatin” (S751). A Kuban residents index separately lists Pyotr Karpovich Zamyatin in a document dated 1884, while an orders index lists collegiate secretary Pyotr Zamyatin in the 1st Caucasus Cavalry Regiment (S752). He may be the same feldsher. However, these originals have not yet been read, and none of the entries names his children. The patronymic Karpovich remains a research lead; a relationship to our family is unproven. The newspaper does not give the first name of the widow awarded aid in 1895 (S753).

Hypothesis: this is the father of the Zamyatin brothers. Pyotr Petrovich is recorded as “son of a junior officer” (S383); the elder brother Grigory was himself a senior medical orderly of the reserve in 1889 (S742), and in 1897 served as clerk of the same 1st Caucasian regiment of the Kuban host (S605) from which medical orderly Zamyatin was discharged in 1885. The name “Pyotr” comes from the sons’ patronymic, with a question mark. It may be confirmed by the orderly’s service record or by Pyotr Petrovich’s student file in Kyiv (L108).

Previously this card named as the presumed father Ensign Zamyatin, transferred in 1867 to the 134th Feodosia regiment (S741). But the officer Zamyatin of that regiment is Vasily: lieutenant (1872), staff captain (1877), discharged as lieutenant colonel in 1889 (S746). He cannot be the father of the Petroviches.

From 25 April 1875 the class medical orderly Zamyatin of the Gorsko-Mozdok Cossack regiment of the Terek Cossack Host held the rank of provincial secretary (S758). The rank and the regiment match the January 1877 extract where he is named in full — “provincial secretary Pyotr Karpov Zamyatin” (S751) — and the 1878 order promoting him to collegiate secretary. So all the orders of 1875–1885 most likely concern one man, Pyotr Karpovich Zamyatin. Where he served in 1873 and 1876, when Alexander and Pyotr Petrovich were born, is not yet known; the link with the 1866 order (23rd line battalion) is not proven.

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