Grigory Pantleimonovich Gladynyuk ( January 22 (10), 1833 , Basalia , Russian Empire - August 7, 1911 , Pyatigorsk ) - Kiev merchant and philanthropist.
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| Date of Birth | January 22, 1833 |
| Place of Birth | Basalia , Volyn province |
| Date of death | August 7, 1911 (78 years old) |
| Place of death | Pyatigorsk |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire |
Biography
Grigory Gladyunyuk was born into a peasant family in the town of Bazaliya, Starokonstantinovsky district of the Volyn province . After the abolition of serfdom, he moved to Kiev , where he got a job as an auxiliary worker in the hotel " European ". Subsequently, Gladynyuk began to work in the kitchen, and in 1871 he was transferred to the position of senior cook. Having acquired some capital over six years of work, Gladynyuk began to think about starting his own business. In 1878, he became a tenant of the three-story building of the Bolshaya Natsionalnaya Hotel on the corner of Khreshchatyk and Bessarabskaya Square , which belonged to the merchant merchant Christina Semenovna Marr . Grigory Panteleevich began reorganizing the hotel, opened a good restaurant , and set up service. Soon he became a successful entrepreneur, having raised his position in society high.
In 1883, Gladynyuk acquired a large plot of land at the corner of Fundukleevskaya and Novo-Elizavetinskaya streets, on which he built a three-story building for the hotel. After some time, the hotel Gladynyuk became considered first-class. The relatively low price (from one to six rubles per day) for billets and good service made the hotel popular among Kiev guests.
Grigory Gladynyuk, in addition to the hotel business, was also engaged in real estate trading. Also, a certain income was given by his estates in the Volyn province.
Grigory Panteleevich regularly allocated a significant amount of his income to various charity. So, in 1898, he bought from the owner of the Bazali estate Count Ledokhovsky, a piece of land on which he built a local hospital. Gladynyuk allocated sixty thousand rubles for the construction and equipment in Kiev of an orphanage for babies abandoned by their parents. Since 1899, he was a lifetime honorary member of the Blind Guardianship, allocated funds to support the Kiev charity , the Ambulance Society, the Free Fire Society and other organizations.
On August 7, 1911, Grigory Gladyunyuk died of angina pectoris while being treated in Pyatigorsk . [1] His body was transported to Kiev and buried in the Baikovo cemetery . In 1915, a city chapel and a monument made of blue marble were installed on the grave of Gladynyuk by a resolution of the City Council, but at the end of the sixties of the twentieth century, all this disappeared, according to the testimony of the historian Kvitnitsky-Ryzhov, in 1967, the poet Pavel Tychina was buried in this place.
Notes
- ↑ Taisiya Shapovalenko. Grigory Gladynyuk was not a member of the "club of Russian nationalists" (Ukrainian) . "Zhіnka-UKRAЇNKA" (October 27, 2018). Date of treatment October 28, 2018.