12 Facts About Ivan Tereshchenko

Ivan Nikolaevich Tereshchenko was a Russian landowner, industrialist, art collector and patron of the arts of Ukrainian Cossack origin.

Ivan Tereshchenko was renowned for his numerous art collections across Europe.

From 1883 to 1891, Tereshchenko worked in the Kiev city council.

Ivan Tereshchenko was a co-founder of the Sugar Refinery Factories' Association of the Tereshchenko Brothers.

The Tereshchenkos, father Nikola, Ivan himself, and his younger brother Aleksandr, were well-known patrons of the arts; Nikola was a financial supporter of the Kiev and Glukhov art museums, and Ivan supported the Kiev Drawing School.

Together with his younger brother, Alexander, Ivan Tereshchenko studied at the Kreyman gymnasium in Moscow, after which he enrolled at the St Vladimir Imperial University of Kiev, from where he graduated with a degree in law.

Ivan Tereshchenko briefly served as a cornet at the Grodno Hussars Life Guards.

Ivan Tereshchenko was a connoisseur and collector of art, for which he became well known throughout the Russian Empire, devoting his life to his collection and patronage.

The first paintings purchased by Ivan Tereshchenko Nikolaevich were the Vereshchagin works depicting battle scenes.

The next morning Ivan Tereshchenko arranged for the whole street leading to the bride's house to be covered with sugar.

Ivan Tereshchenko's father was not impressed by this ruse, and in April 1880, at the insistence of his father, Ivan Tereshchenko resigned and went to Europe to collect art.

Ivan Tereshchenko is buried next to his daughter Olga, who was born in 1882 and died in childhood.