Mikhail Pavlovich Ryabushinsky

Mikhail Pavlovich Ryabushinsky

Mikhail Pavlovich Ryabushinsky ( Russian Михаил Павлович Рябушинский ; born June 15 ^{. Jul} / 27. June  1880 ^greg. In Moscow , † 1960 in London ) was a Russian banker and art collector .

Life

Ryabushinsky was the sixth son of the old-believing businessman Pavel Mikhailovich Ryabushinsky . He graduated from the Moscow Academy of Applied Commerce and then worked in the industrial company of the Ryabushinsky brothers. Together with his older brothers Pavel and Vladimir , he ran the family company's finances. He was a member of the board of directors of the Kharkov Landbank (1901–1917), founder and partner in the banking house of the Ryabushinsky brothers (1902–1912) and a board member of the Moscow bank he founded (1912–1917).

Ryabushinsky has been collecting paintings since 1900 . In 1909 he owned around 100 paintings by Russian and Western European painters . These included works by Dmitry Levitzky , Vasily Tropinin , Valentin Serov , Alexandre Benois , Viktor Vasnetsov , Mikhail Vrubel , Alexander Yakovlevich Golovin , Pavel Warfolomejewitsch Kuznetsov , Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev , Sergey Malyutin , Ilya Repin , Martiros Saryan , Konstantin Andrejewitsch Somow , Igor Emmanuilowitsch Grabar , Wladimir Jegorowitsch Makowski , Wassili Dmitrijewitsch Polenow , Wassili Wassiljewitsch Wereschtschagin , Pierre Bonnard , Edgar Degas , Camille Pissarro , Claude Monet and Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot . The collection was in his villa, which Sawwa Timofejewitsch Morozov owned earlier . Immediately after the October Revolution , Ryabushinski moved part of the collection to the Tretyakov Gallery because of feared unrest , while he hid the rest in the house. In January 1918 he joined the Union of Art Warehouse Operators. However, he left the country that same year. In October 1918 the collection was nationalized and stayed in the Tretyakov Gallery. The paintings in the collection are now in the Moscow Tretyakov Gallery, the St. Petersburg Russian Museum , the Moscow Pushkin Museum , the Kiev Picture Gallery and the Radishchev Art Museum in Saratov .

Rjabuschinski emigrated to London and opened his own commercial bank, Western Bank Ltd. He was chairman of the London branch of the Russian Industrial Trade and Finance Union, which was founded in Paris in 1921 by former Russian entrepreneurs . After the bankruptcy of his own commercial bank in 1930, he worked as an importer of goods from Bulgaria and Serbia to the United Kingdom . After the Second World War he was a commission agent for small antiquarians . In the last years of his life he became impoverished and died in a poor hospital.

Ryabushinsky was married to Tatiana Fominitschna Primakowa, the daughter of an usher of the Bolshoi Theater , who danced as a trained ballerina in the Corps de ballet of the Bolshoi Theater. In her first divorced marriage she was married to the farewell Colonel Komarov and had the son Sergei and the daughter Jelena. From his marriage to Tatiana Fominitschna, Ryabuschinski had a son Pavel and a daughter Tatiana .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Московский коммерческий суд. Очерк истории московского коммерческого суда 1833-1908 и его современные деятели (accessed May 2, 2018),
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Рябушинские купцы ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 2, 2018). 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Энциклопедия Российского купечества: РЯБУШИНСКИЙ Михаил Павлович (accessed May 2, 2018).
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Музей предпринимателей, меценатов и благотворителей: Рябушинский Михаил Павлович (accessed May 2, 2018).
5. ↑ Музей предпринимателей, меценатов и благотворителей: РЯБУШИНСКИЕ - ЦЕЛАЯ ЭПОХА В ПРОМЫШЛИНОЙ (accessed May 1, 2018.
6. ↑ Особняк Степана Павловича Рябушинского на Малой Никитской (accessed May 2, 2018).