Simeon Artemievitch Tereshchenko

25 May 1839 – 1893

The third son of Artemi Tereshchenko and Euphrosyne Steslyavskaya, Simeon attended school in Hlukhiv and maried Olympia Viktorovna Velentei (Varengo). He was named Hlukhiv city bank director on October 26,1866. He was also owner of the Glushkovsky cloth factory and co-director of the Kherson Oblast salt mine. On 26 September 1870 he was named the official representative of the Imperial Society for Special Assignments and in 1871 became listed in the genealogical book of Kursk Province. He died at the age of 53 in 1893.

In 1882, while living in Paris, he ordered Louis Leveque, the famous french rosarian, to create a special breed of rose and it was named the “Madame Olympia Tereshchenko Rose”. It is a large white and carmine-pink shaded rose with a white blend of Bourbon coloring.

The TERESHCHENKO ROSE

A specially bred rose by the famous French florist Louis Leveque, in 1882, named after the wife of Simon Tereshchenko.

Was a gift to Olympiada Tereshchenko from her husband Simon Tereshchenko.

A love gift

This rose was specially bred for Simon Tereshchenko’s wife, Olympiada. In 1865, he married a girl from an old Szlachta noble family Velentei Olympiada. So the name ‘Madame Olympe Tereshchenko’ was inspired by her.

The breed ‘Madame Olympe Tereshchenko’ was created by the French gardener Louis Lévêque in 1882 and belongs to the group of Bourbon roses. The rose is white, carmine-pink shading or white blend Bourbon color rose, with a moderate smell, collected in inflorescences of 3-6 buds. The size of the flower is medium, terry form (17-25 petals). Origin: ‘Louise Odier’. Details: a remontant hybrid white with pink and nice fragrance rose.

Louis Lévêque and Tereshchenko family

Louis Lévêque is the colleague of Jean Claude Pernet a French rosarian who developed the ‘Baroness Adolphe de Rothschild’ Hybrid Tea rose in 1868, named for Baroness Caroline von Rothschild.

So, Louis from Lévêque & Fils was famous among royal families and dynasties, also developed ‘Madame Olympe Tereshchenko’ rose, which was known to be a romantic gesture by the Tereshchenko family as a gentlemen’s tradition followed in Rothschild and Tereshchenko families. This white, carmine-pink Bourbon color rose, was named for Olympiada Tereshchenko, wife of Simon Tereshchenko.

Unique beauty and flower – Tereshchenko rose