GENAEOLOGY OF VASILY SLASTUKIN (ADOPTED BY FEDIYA AND PARANIYA VERIGIN)

Genealogy of the Slastukhin Family of Doukhobors (EWV note June 25, 2022: As prepared by Jonathan J. Kalmakoff)

In the early 1800s, the Slastukhin family settled in the village of Troitskoye, Melitopol uezd, Tavria guberniya. In 1844, the family was exiled with the Doukhobors to the Transcaucasus. At that time, Maksim Yakovlevich resettled with his daughters and two orphaned nephews, Aleksandr Fedorovich and Ermolay Fedorovich to Troitskoye village, Akhalkalaki uezd, Tiflis guberniya. In 1847, Maksim Yakovlevich and his family resettled to Slavyanka village, Elisavetpol uezd and guberniya, while the families of his nephews remained in Troitskoye.

1 Yakov Slastukhin (about 1775-before 1844)
……+ Maksim Yakovlevich Slastukhin (1800-before 1873)
..………+ Luker’ya (1800-?)
…………2 Avdot’ya Maksimovna Slastukhina (1830-)
…………2 Mariya Maksimovna Slastukhina (1832-)
…………2 Vasilisa Maksimovna Slastukhina (1838-)
……+ Fyodor Yakovlevich Slastukhin (about 1798-before 1844)
…………2 Aleksandr Fedorovich Slastukhin (1819-)
………………+ Аnna (1822-)
……………………….3 Marfa Aleksandrovna Slastukhina (1842-)
……………………….3 Dar’ya Aleksandrovna Slastukhina (1844-)
……………………….3 Fyodor Aleksandrovich Slastukhin (1848-)
……………………………4 Grigory Fedorovich Slastukhin (1870-)

………………………………4 Petr Fedorovich Slastukhin (1872-)
………………………………4 Vasily Fedorovich Slastukhin “Verigin” (1878-) (EWV notation June 25, 2022, This is my grandfather Vasily who was legally adopted (in Georgia) by Fedia and Paraniya Verigin and migrated with the Verigins to Canada to reside at Pokrovka Village about 4 miles North of the Village of Veregin
……………………….3 Mikhailo Aleksandrovich Slastukhin (1850-)
……………………+ Аrina Nikolayevna (1849-)
…………………………….4 Fyodor Mikhailovich Slastukhin (1868-)
…………………………+ Аnastas’ya Ivanovna (1867-)
…………………………….4 Tat’yana Mikhailovna Slastukhina (1870-)
…………………………….4 Anna Mikhailovna Slastukhina (1873-)
…………………………….4 Agaf’ya Mikhailovna Slastukhina (1874-)
…………………………….4 Aleksandr Mikhailovich Slastukhin (1879-)
…………………………….4 Evdok’ya Mikhailovna Slastukhina (1883-)
…………2 Ermolay Fedorovich Slastukhin (1825-before 1873)
……………………….3 Ivan Ermolayevich Slastukhin (1849-before 1873)
……………………….3 Nikolai Ermolayevich Slastukhin (1855-)
……………………+ Pelageya Fedorovna (1824-)
…………………………….4 Konstantin Nikolayevich Slastukhin (1879-)
…………………………….4 Nikolai Nikolayevich Slastukhin (1882-)

In 1894, the orphaned brothers Grigory Fedorovich and Petr Fedorovich resettled from Troitskoye to the neighbouring village of Goreloye. Their brother Vasily Fedorovich immigrated to Canada in 1899 with the Verigin family and settled in Pokrovka (Prokuratovo Village). Also immigrating to Canada in 1899 were the orphaned brothers Konstantin Nikolayevich and Fyodor Nikolayevich who settled in Lebedevo village with their step-father Aleksei Chernov.

Jon

Some of the Doukhobors who became known as Sons of Freedom emerged from within the CCUB. Some families emerged in the very early years of settlement in Saskatchewan. Other families found their way into the Freedomite movement in the 1928-1932 period when Doukhobor leader Peter “Chistyakov” Verigin evicted several hundred CCUB members in Saskatchewan and British Columbia for failure to pay their membership dues – at a time when financial resources were extremely scarce during the Great Depression.

However, a good number of those who became Freedomites also originated from among the Independent Doukhobors, who in the Thirties, at the height of the Depression, found themselves financially ruined, landless and destitute. They migrated to places such as Gilpin and Krestova as these places offered free, taxless places to live with their family at a time when they had few other options. It seems that the Slastukhins were among the latter group; considering they were all previously well-to-do Independent Doukhobors in the 1918-1924 era.

Elmer Verigin in the 1918 Census of Independent Doukhbors, there were two brothers, Bill and Fred Slastukin living in the household of their father Fred (Fyodor Nikolayevich) in Pelly. EWV note June 25, 2022: Fred married a Vanin and had a family of John and 3 sisters. He lived 3 miles East and i mile North of Pelly) Bill married a (–?–) and had 3 daughters (Vivian, Helen and Frances) and ived 2 miles East of Pelly. These children were all my age and we attended school together. We knew we were related and the youth associated as friends

Fyodor’s brother Constantine (Konstantin Nikolayevich) was also living in Pelly at this time as an Independent Doukhobor and also had a son Fred. EWV note June 25, 2022: This Fred lived 4 miles East of Pelly and had 3 daughters. This relative was further removed and EWV did not associate as closely with this family.

Special thanks to Jonathan J. Kalmakoff for his professional work to research this portion of my family tree which I have completed early in 2022.

Jonathan is related through my grandmother Auxuta (nee Chursinoff) Verigin. Jonathan’s great grandmother, Lukeria, (married Wasyl Sherstobitoff) was an older sister to Auxuta.

Posted June 25, 2022, 1456 hours

Elmer Verigin