Bogdan Khanenko
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Bogdan Khanenko (Ukrainian: Богдан Ханенко) (1849-1917) was a Kiev born Ukrainian lawyer, sugar industrialist, and a collector of arts.
After marrying Nicholas Tereshchenko's daughter, Varvara, he built a Museum of Western and Oriental Art with his unique and private foreign art colleciton. After his death, the museum opened up to the public and was named after the couple.
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- The Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko Arts Museum at the Museum World of Ukraine: in Russian. in Ukrainian
- Vyacheslav Prokopenko, The gift of Khanenko, Zerkalo Nedeli (The Mirror Weekly), February 4 - 10, 1995. (Russian)
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