Mikhail Ivanovich Tereshchenko

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Mikhail Tereshchenko before 1919

Mikhail Ivanovich Tereshchenko ( Russian Михаил Иванович Терещенко , Ukrainian Михайло Іванович Терещенко Mychajlo Iwanowytsch Tereshchenko ; born March 18 . Jul / the thirtieth March  1886 greg. In Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † 1. April 1956 in Monte Carlo , Monaco ) was a Russian politician, landowner, and sugar manufacturer of Ukrainian descent. In 1917 he was Finance and Foreign Minister of the Provisional Government of Russia.

family

Family coat of arms

Mikhail Tereschchenko was born in Kiev to a wealthy Ukrainian Cossack family from the Hluchiw region , ennobled in 1870 . His great-grandfather Artem Tereschtschenko († 1873), the founder of the line, made his fortune during the Crimean War by supplying the Russian army with bread and boat wood and later becoming a sugar manufacturer. After the agrarian reform of 1861, he and his sons bought up numerous goods in Ukraine and Russia, so that by the turn of the century they owned 140,000 Dessjatinen (about 153,000 hectares ) of real estate and were thus among the largest landowners in the Russian Empire. Mikhail's grandfather Mykola Tereschchenko (1820-1903) and his father Ivan (1854-1903) were well-known art patrons . The art collection of his grandfather Mykola later formed the basis of the Ukrainian and Russian art museums in Kiev and his father Ivan supported the Kiev drawing school of Mykola Muraschko . Tereshchenko had a personal fortune of about 70 million rubles, making it one of the largest fortunes in the Russian Empire. One of his grandsons is the Franco-Ukrainian entrepreneur, patron and politician Mishel Tereschenko .

The second Lvov cabinet: In the top row on the right, Mikhail Tereshchenko (No. 3)

Life

Mikhail Tereshchenko by Alexander Golovin between 1910 and 1914; Malmo Art Museum

Mikhail Tereschtschenko attended high school in Kiev and then studied at the University of Leipzig , Saint Petersburg and the University of Moscow . He graduated from Moscow University with a law degree in 1911 after an external examination at the Law Faculty of Moscow University. He was fluent in many languages, Latin and ancient Greek, loved theater, music, poetry and painting. Mikhail Tereshchenko was a member of the Fourth State Duma and during the First World War he was chairman of the War Industry Committee in Kiev from 1915 to 1917. He also set up Red Cross hospitals in Kiev at his own expense .

As a result of the February Revolution of 1917 , Tereshchenko was a non-party in the First Lvov Government of the Provisional Government of Russia from March 30, 1917 to May 17, 1917 Finance Minister and then in the Second Lvov Government between May 18, 1917 and November 7 1917 their foreign minister. In June 1917 he was in his function as Russian Foreign Minister, alongside Alexander Kerensky , Nikolai Nekrasov and Irakli Tsereteli member of the delegation of the Provisional Government in the negotiations with the Ukrainian Central Na Rada on the autonomy of Ukraine.

After the October Revolution he became jul on October 26th . / November 8,  1917 greg. Arrested by the Bolsheviks and detained in the Peter and Paul Fortress . In the spring of 1918 he was released and emigrated to Western Europe, from where he supported the White Movement during the Russian Civil War . He lived in Sweden , Norway , France and most recently in Monaco, where he died in 1956.

In the silent film October by director Sergei M. Eisenstein from 1928, Mikhail Tereshchenko was portrayed by the actor Boris Liwanow .

Web links

Commons : Mikhail Tereshchenko  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on the Tereshchenko family in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on March 24, 2018 (English)
  2. ↑ a b biography of Mikhail Tereschchenko on hrono.ru ; accessed on March 24, 2018 (Russian)
  3. ↑ Book Description: The First Oligarch - Michail Iwanowitsch Tereschtschenko on interesniy.kiev.ua ; accessed on March 24, 2018 (Russian)
  4. ↑ a b Entry on Mychajlo Tereshchenko in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on March 24, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  5. ^ Entry on Mychajlo Tereschchenko in the Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia ; accessed on March 24, 2018 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Tereschchenko, Mikhail Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Терещенко, Михаил Иванович (Russian); Tereschchenko, Mychajlo Ivanovych (transcribed in Ukrainian); Терещенко, Михайло Іванович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian politician, landowner and sugar manufacturer of Ukrainian descent
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1956
Place of death Monte Carlo , Monaco