Tereshchenko family
Encyclopedia
Tereshchenko or Terestchenko was a family of prominent Ukrainian entrepreneurs and philanthropists who throve in the times of the Russian Empire
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917. It was the successor to the Tsardom of Russia and the predecessor of the Soviet Union...

 (late eighteenth to early twentieth century). The family had Cossack roots and received its noble status in 1870.

Some of the family members were:
  • Artemii Tereshchenko (1794–1873), Ukrainian entrepreneur, land-owner, establisher of sugar factories
    • Nikola Tereshchenko (1819–1903), Ukrainian philanthropist, son of Artemii
      • Varvara Khanenko
        Bogdan Khanenko
        Bogdan Khanenko was a Kiev-born lawyer, sugar industrialist, and art collector.- Biography :In 1871 Khanenko graduated from the law department of Moscow University and served as a judge in St Petersburg and Warsaw...

         (1848–1922, née
        Married and maiden names
        A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage. When a person assumes the family name of her spouse, the new name replaces the maiden name....

         Tereshchenko), an art collector, a cofounder of the Kiev Museum of Western and Oriental Art
        Museum of Western and Oriental Art
        Museum of Western and Oriental Art in Kiev, also known as the Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum of Art is the largest collection of foreign art in Ukraine....

      • Ivan Tereshchenko (1854–1903), a painter, son of Nikola
        • Mikhail Tereshchenko
          Mikhail Tereshchenko
          Mikhail Ivanovich Tereshchenko was the foreign minister of Russia from 5 May 1917 to 25 October 1917...

           (1886–1956), a foreign minister in Russian Provisional Government
          Russian Provisional Government
          The Russian Provisional Government was the short-lived administrative body which sought to govern Russia immediately following the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II . On September 14, the State Duma of the Russian Empire was officially dissolved by the newly created Directorate, and the country was...

          , son of Ivan
    • Fyodor Artemyevich Tereshchenko, whose collection served a basis of the Kiev Museum of Russian Art
      • Fyodor Fyodorovich Tereshchenko (1888-?), an aircraft constructor, son of Fyodor Artemyevich
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK