Maxim Sozontovich Berezovsky was a composer of secular and liturgical music, and a conductor and opera singer, who worked at the St. Petersburg Court Chapel in the Russian Empire, but who also spent much of his career in Italy. He made an important contribution in the music of Ukraine. Together with Artemy Vedel and Dmitry Bortniansky, Berezovsky is considered by musicologists as one of the "Golden Three" composers of 18th century Ukrainian classical music, and one of Russia's greatest choral composers.
Hlukhiv is a small historic city on the Esman River. It belongs to Shostka Raion of Sumy Oblast of Ukraine. Population: 31,789.
Mykhailo Ivanovych Tereshchenko was the foreign minister of Russia from 18 May 1917 to 7 November 1917 (N.S.). He was also a major Ukrainian landowner, the proprietor of several sugar factories, and a financier.
Druzhba is a small city in the Shostka Raion of the Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. The population is 4,504.
Ivan Sulyma was a Senior of Registered Cossacks in 1628–29 and a Kosh Otaman in 1630–1635.
Bohdan Khanenko was a Ukrainian lawyer, sugar industrialist, and art collector. He is a member of the well known Khanenko family, which includes such personalities like Mykhailo Khanenko and Danylo Khanenko. Along with his wife Varvara, Bohdan Khanenko is known for his philanthropic activities towards art and its preservation in Ukraine and the Russian Empire.
Tereshchenko is a surname of Ukrainian origin. It originates from the name Teresh through an addition of the Ukrainian paternal suffix -enko.
Mykhailo Mykhailovych Kotsiubynsky, was a Ukrainian author whose writings described typical Ukrainian life at the start of the 20th century. Kotsiubynsky's early stories were described as examples of ethnographic realism; in the years to come, with his style of writing becoming more and more sophisticated, he evolved into one of the most talented Ukrainian impressionist and modernist writers. The popularity of his novels later led to some of them being made into Soviet movies.
The Ternopil Oblast Council is the regional oblast council (parliament) of the Ternopil Oblast (province) located in western Ukraine. The council is composed of 64 members and is situated in the oblast's administrative center Ternopil.
Ukrainian avant-garde is the avant-garde movement in Ukrainian art from the end of 1890s to the middle of the 1930s along with associated artists in sculpture, painting, literature, cinema, theater, stage design, graphics, music, architecture. Some well-known Ukrainian avant-garde artists include: Kazimir Malevich, Alexander Archipenko, Vladimir Tatlin, Sonia Delaunay, Vasyl Yermylov, Alexander Bogomazov, Aleksandra Ekster, David Burliuk, Vadym Meller, and Anatol Petrytsky. All were closely connected to the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, and Odesa by either birth, education, language, national traditions or identity. Since it originated when Ukaine was part of the Russian Empire, Ukrainian avant-garde has been commonly lumped by critics into the Russian avant-garde movement.
Governing Council of the Hetman Office was a provisional form of the Collegium of Little Russia in the Hetmanate and Sloboda Ukraine that was established by Anna of Russia in 1734. It was subordinated to the Governing Senate in Saint-Petersburg.
Mykhailo Mykhailovych Nechay was a Ukrainian Hutsul molfar during the late 20th century and early 21st century. Commonly referred to as "the last molfar", Nechay has become known for his prophecies on Ukraine, predicting the fall of Viktor Yanukovych and the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Wilhelm Kotarbiński was a Polish artist and painter of historical and fantastical subjects, who spent most of his life in Kyiv and the Russian Empire.
Artemy Yakovlevich Tereshchenko was the first entrepreneur in the Tereshchenko family and the founder of the Tereshchenko dynasty, one of the wealthiest families in the world. Nicknamed "Karbovanets", he was a guild merchant, a hereditary honorary citizen, a hereditary nobleman, and Burgermeister of Hlukhiv City from 1842 to 1845. He established the production of the sugar beet in Ukraine and funded charitable works.
Varvara Nikolovna Khanenko was the eldest daughter of the entrepreneur, sugar king, philanthropist and collector Nikola Tereshchenko. Home schooled, she was interested, like her father, in art. She was Bogdan Khanenko's wife.
Ivan Nikolaevich Tereshchenko was a 19th-century Russian Empire landowner, industrialist, art collector and patron of the arts of Ukrainian Cossack origin. He was renowned for his numerous art collections across Europe.
The Tereshchenko family of philanthropists, originally from Ukraine have donated to, and supported, the construction and restoration of Christian churches all over the world.
National Museum Taras Shevchenko is a museum in Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, dedicated to the life and work of the painter and national poet, Taras Shevchenko.
