Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Tenischew

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Prince Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Tenischew ( Portrait of Léon Bonnat , 1896, Hermitage (Saint Petersburg) )

Prince Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Tenischew ( Russian Князь Вячеслав Николаевич Тенишев ; born February 2 . Jul / 14. February  1843 greg. In Warsaw ; † 25. April 1903 in Paris ) was a Tatar - Russian engineer , entrepreneur and patron .

Life

Tenischew, son of the general and governor of Sandomir Governor Prince Nikolai Ivanovich Tenischew , came from an important princely family of the Mishari Tatars , a subgroup of the Volga-Ural Tatars . At the age of 3 he lost his mother, so that he grew up with his uncle in Tver Governorate . One of his father's many offices was the administration of traffic routes in Congress Poland , where he built the first railways . Tenischew graduated from high school and then began studying at the Physics - Mathematics Faculty of the University of St. Petersburg . But he soon left St. Petersburg to study at the Technical University of Karlsruhe (1861–1864).

After his return, Tenishev began to work as a railroad engineer . He was particularly interested in metal processing . In 1870 he founded a small factory on St. Petersburg's Gutujewski Island to manufacture machines for the production of railway bridge components. He became a shareholder , chairman of the board and technical director of the Brjansk company for the supply of railway construction materials in St. Petersburg, founded in 1873 , one of the most important metalworking plants in Russia. Tenischew joined the boards of the St. Petersburg International Commercial Bank and the Russian Foreign Trade Bank as well as the Society for the Promotion of Industry and Trade . He also founded the Electrical -Company Prince Tenischew & Co .

In his first marriage, Tenischew was married to Anna Dmitrijewna Samjatina, daughter of the Minister of Justice Dmitri Nikolajewitsch Samjatin , who opened a workshop for embroidery and lace manufacture at the Alexandrowka estate near Mtsensk . Works from this workshop were exhibited at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 . In 1892 Tenischew (after a quick divorce from his first wife) married the poor divorced artist Marija Klawdijewna Nikolajewa , whose charity he then generously supported.

In 1896 Tenischew withdrew from active business life and devoted himself to scientific and charitable projects, which he supported very generously due to his large personal fortune. His best-known social project was the Tenischew School , for which he arranged the construction and maintenance of the building for a commercial secondary school in St. Petersburg in an exemplary manner. Well-known students were Mandelstam (1907), Naliwkin (1907), Schirmunski (1908), Boris Artzybasheff , Nabokov (1917), Rabinowitch and, after 1917, Pozner and Tschukowskaja . Another project was the establishment of the ethnographic office to study the current life of the farmers. He played the violin and for some time headed the St. Petersburg Department of the Russian Music Society. He was chamberlain and knight of the Legion of Honor .

After Tenischew's death in Paris , his remains were transferred to his Smolensk country estate and buried in the Holy Spirit Church of the Flenowo estate near Talaschkino . In 1917 during the October Revolution the remains were taken out and buried in the village cemetery. His son from his first marriage was the lawyer and politician Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovich Tenischew .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Тенишев Вячеслав Николаевич (accessed January 9, 2017).
  2. ↑ РОД КНЯЗЕЙ И МУРЗ ТЕНИШЕВЫХ ( Memento from June 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 9, 2017).
  3. ↑ Алфавитный указатель жителей столицы: Весь Петербург на 1894 год, адресная и справочная книга г. С.-Петербурга . издание Alexei Sergejewitsch Suvorin , St. Petersburg 1894, ISBN 5-94030-052-9 , p. 231 .
  4. ↑ Княгиня Мария Клавдиевна Тенишева (accessed January 10, 2017).
  5. ↑ Санкт-Петербург Энциклопедия (accessed January 8, 2016).
  6. ↑ Российский этнографический музей: Что такое "Этнографическое бюро" кн. В.Н. Тенишева (accessed January 9, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Tenischew, Vyacheslav Nikolayevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tenischew, Prince Vyacheslav Nikolaevich (full name); Те́нишев, Князь Вячесла́в Никола́евич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tatar-Russian engineer, entrepreneur and patron
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1903
Place of death Paris