Tereshchenko family

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Tereshchenko (Ukrainian: Терещенко) was a family of prominent Ukrainian entrepreneurs and philanthropists that thrived in the times of the Russian Empire (late eighteenth to early twentieth century).

Some of the family members were:

• Artemii Tereshchenko (1794-1873), a Ukrainian entrepreneur, land-owner, establisher of sugar factories
  • Nikola Tereshchenko (1819-1903), a Ukrainian philanthropist, son of Artemii
    • Varvara Khanenko (1848-1922, née Tereshchenko), an art collector, a cofounder of the Kiev Museum of Western and Oriental Art
    • Ivan Tereshchenko (1854-1903), a painter, son of Nikola
      • Mikhail Tereshchenko (1886–1956), a foreign minister of Russian Provisional Government, 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

[edit] References

• Любовь Болотина, "Династия Терещенко", Удачный выбор, № 33, 01.04.2005
• Михаил Кутузов, "Терещенки", Со-общение, 2005
• Vitaliy Kovalynsky, "Aspiring the Common Good", Zerkalo Nedeli, (The Mirror Weekly, March 1 - 7, 2003, in Russian, in Ukrainian
• Members of Tereshchenko dynasty at "Вашъ Кіевъ" portal.
• Терещенко дал деньги на киевскую консерваторию. 120 лет назад родился бизнесмен и меценат Михаил Терещенко, Газета по-украински, 24.3.06,

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