Wassyl Symyrenko

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Memorial stone for Wassyl Symyrenko on his house from 1899 to 1915, today's British Embassy in Kiev
Wassyl Symyrenko (left) on a Ukrainian postage stamp from 1996. Wolodymyr Symyrenko in the middle and Lewko Symyrenko on the right

Vasyl Fedorowytsch Symyrenko ( Ukrainian Василь Федорович Симиренко , Russian Василий Фёдорович Симиренко Vasily Fedorovich Simirenko ; born March 7 . Jul / 19th March  1835 greg. In Mlijiw , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire ; † December 4 jul. / 17th December  1915 greg. in Kiev , Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian industrialist and patron.

Life

Wassyl Symyrenko was one of eight survivors of a total of 22 children of Fedir Stepanowytsch Symyrenko (1795–1867) and Anastassy Mychajlowna Symyrenko née. Jachnenko.

Wassyl ran his family's sugar factory. In the 1860s he built a sugar factory in Sydoriwka ( Сидорівка ) in the Kyiv governorate , equipped with ultra-modern machines, some of which were self-developed . This work was the most productive of its kind in the entire Russian Empire at the time. He also founded and managed one of the best Ukrainian theater companies at the time in Sydoriwka.

For about 40 years, Symyrenko supported the Ukrainian cultural work financially, for example by covering the deficits of Ukrainian cultural newspapers. He also financed the work of the first Ukrainian publishing house and supported writers and scientists such as Mychajlo Kozjubynskyj and Mychajlo Drahomanow . In 1912 he donated 100,000 rubles to the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv for the construction of a new building.

Wassyl Symyrenko died in Kiev at the age of 80 and was buried in the cemetery near Askold's grave .

Childless Symyrenko left his entire fortune of about 10 million rubles to Ukrainian culture. However, because of the First World War and the October Revolution , his will could not be carried out and the money was lost. According to his will, his mansion in Kiev became the property of the Ukrainian Scientific Society and now houses the British Embassy in Ukraine.

Despite its importance in Ukrainian economic and cultural history, it was largely ignored by Soviet-Ukrainian science.

family

Wassyl Symyrenko was the younger brother of Plato Symyrenko (1821–1863) who was a founder of rational horticulture in Ukraine and a promoter of the work of Taras Shevchenko . Wassyl was married to Sofia Ivanovna Albrand. His wife came from a family of French aristocrats who emigrated to Ukraine after the French Revolution . The couple had no children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry on Fedir Symyrenko in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on February 14, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c Houses in Kiev with a short biography of Wassyl Symyrenko and a description of his house, on www.alyoshin.ru ; accessed on February 14, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ From serfs - to the owners of factories in ukurier.gov of January 14, 2014; accessed on February 14, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b c d Entry on Wassyl Symyrenko in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on February 14, 2018
  5. ↑ Article on Wassyl Symyrenko in day.kyiv.ua of September 19, 2000; accessed on February 14, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Symyrenko, Wassyl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Symyrenko, Wassyl Fedorowytsch (full name); Симиренко, Василь Федорович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian industrialist and patron
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH Mlijiw , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1915
Place of death Kiev , Russian Empire