Artemiy Yakovlevich Tereshchenko ( 1794 , Lokot , Sevsky uyezd , Orel governorship - 1873 , Glukhov , Chernigov gubernia ) - merchant of the 1st guild (since May 12, 1870), hereditary honorary citizen (1862), hereditary nobleman (1870). Mayor of Glukhovsky city magistrate (1842-1845).
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| Place of death | Glukhov , Chernihiv Province |
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| Awards and prizes | Gold Medal of the Holy Synod |
Biography
As pointed out by Yakov Ivanovich Butovich :
Artyom Tereshchenko was at one time a shepherd with a flock of sheep. However, a small capable, striving for enrichment and having reached it, having accumulated small money by hook or by crook, he settled on a farm near the town of Glukhov and there ran a farm and traded cattle.
- The horses of my heart. From the memories of horse breeders / Jacob Butovich. - M .: Publishing House of them. Sabashnikov, 2013.
His business developed so successfully that the nickname “Karbovanets” was stuck to him from a young age.
During the Crimean War, Artemy Yakovlevich earned considerable capital in supplying forest and bread for the army, which he later invested in an extremely rapidly developing sugar industry.
After his own money, Artemy Yakovlevich, after 1861, began buying or renting small factories from ruined landlords and modernizing outdated started production, land for growing sugar beets and building new sugar factories and mills.
A.Ya. Tereshchenko was also engaged in charitable activities and was awarded the gold medal of the Holy Synod . At the expense of the family, a vocational school, women's and men's gymnasiums, a teacher's institute, a bank, a free hospital of St. Euphrosyne, an orphanage, the Three-Anastasy Church were built in Glukhov.
Since 1870, Artemy Yakovlevich Tereshchenko, the merchant of the first guild, actually withdrew from active affairs, reassigning them to their sons, who organized the “Partnership of Sugar Beet Sugar and Refineries Brothers”. This year, he and his sons and their families moved to Moscow . By the highest decree of May 12, 1870, Artemy Tereshchenko, for special merits and as a reward for charitable activities, was raised to the hereditary nobility of the Russian Empire with all posterity through the male line.
In 1874, Tereshchenka moved to Kiev - except for the family of Semyon Yakovlevich, who settled in the Kursk province .
Family
From January 15, 1819, he was married to Efrosinya Grigorievna Steslyavskaya, daughter of merchant Grigory Yevstratovich Steslyavsky. Their sons:
- Nicola (1819-1903)
- Fedor (1832-1894)
- Semen (1839–1893)