Ivan Gerasimowitsch Kharitonenko

Ivan Gerasimowitsch Charitonenko ( Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Newrew , 1892, Tretyakov Gallery )

Ivan Gerassimowitsch Charitonenko ( Russian Иван Герасимович Харитоненко , Ukrainian Іван Герасимович Харитоненко Ivan Herassymowytsch Charytonenko ; born September 25, ^jul. / 7. October  1820 ^greg. In Nyschnja Syrowatka , † November 30 ^jul. / 12. December  1891 ^greg. In Sumy ) was a Ukrainian - Russian entrepreneur , sugar manufacturer and patron .

Life

Charitonenko's father, Gerassim Jemeljanowitsch Charitonenko, was a Cossack in Nyschnja Syrowatka with 10 children, 5 of whom died early. In 1839 the father became the community leader and in 1849 the merchant of the 3rd guild in Sumy. Ivan Charitonenko only attended the village parish school and then became an apprentice to the Kursk merchants Chudokormow and Gladkow.

In 1850 Charitonenko started his own grocery store in Sumy. He was involved in the sugar trade and bought sugar from local sugar manufacturers for the St. Petersburg merchant brothers Grigori and Stepan Petrovich Jelissejew . He then began to buy land for growing sugar beet and to buy or lease sugar factories from less successful entrepreneurs, including Prince Golizin in Slavgorod near Sumy and Count Kleimichel in the Kursk governorate , which he then modernized. In 1862 he became a merchant of the 2nd guild in Sumy and in 1863 a merchant of the 1st guild. He was now known as the Sugar King with 40,000 Dessjatinen land in the governorates of Kharkov , Kursk, Chernigov and Poltava . In 1872 he was granted hereditary honorary citizenship by resolution of the governing senate with his wife Natalja Maximowna, née Leschtschinska, and his son Pavel . In 1876 he became a councilor of commerce, in 1885 a councilor of state (5th class ) and in 1886 a real councilor (4th class). He was mayor of Sumy from 1867 to 1873 and from 1865 to 1886 a member of parliament with voting rights in Kharkov Governorate.

In 1872 Kharitonenko bought an estate in Krasnaya Yaruga . In 1873 he built a sugar factory there with the latest technology. He also had a new mansion built. He received a first class medal at the 1876 ​​World Exhibition in Philadelphia , a gold medal at the Paris World Exhibition in 1878 , an honorary diploma at the International Exposition de Nice in 1884, a gold medal at the Antwerp World Exhibition in 1885 and the highest award at the Paris World Exhibition in 1889 . In 1890 he was one of the leading members of the refinery syndicate of Russian sugar manufacturers.

In addition to his business activities, Charitonenko appeared as a generous benefactor. He gave 90,000 rubles to build a children's home in Sumy and made a capital of 150,000 rubles available for the maintenance of the home. He gave 100,000 rubles to build a dormitory for students at Kharkov University and 70,000 rubles to build a church in Syrowatka. He paid generous pensions to the orphaned families of his employees. He organized free medical aid for the poor in Sumy. With the help of the pastors, he distributed up to 200 rubles a month to the poor. He donated a lot to educational institutions and charities. In 1885 he provided the University of Kharkov with a capital for 20 scholarships of 300 rubles per year each. He bequeathed his dacha and 500,000 rubles to a future cadet corps in Sumy .

Charitonenko's grave is located in the city's central cemetery next to the Peter and Paul Church in Sumy with a funerary monument by the French sculptor Aristide Croisy . In 1891 the Sumy Duma decided to erect a monument to Kharitonenko in the city. The monument to Aristide Croisy and Alexander Michailowitsch Opekuschin was inaugurated in 1899. After the October Revolution , the monument was dismantled in 1924 and only restored in 1996 by the sculptor AA Ivchenko and placed on the old square.

Web links

Commons : Charitonenko family  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} А. Козлов: К 175-летию со дня рождения И. Г. Аритоненко . In: Сумское обозрение . No. 41 , October 10, 1997, p. 263 ( mke.su [accessed March 12, 2018]).
2. ↑ Большая биографическая энциклопедия: Харитоненко, Иван Герасимович (accessed March 13, 2018).
3. ↑ Светлана Скорик: Харитоненко: промышленник и меценат (accessed March 12, 2018).