Tereshchenko family

Tereshchenko or Terestchenko(Ukrainian: Терещенко) was a family of prominent Ukrainian entrepreneurs and philanthropists who throve in the times of the Russian Empire (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 (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 in 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

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,