Fedor (Théodore) Artemeïvitch Tereshchenko

He was the brother of Nicola and Simeon, son of the industrialist and sugar magnate Arteimon Tereshchenko. He was born in Hluykiv, Sumy Oblast in 1832 and was schooled in Moscow, Berlin and Paris. He was a sugar manufacturer, industrialist, landowner, and philanthropist.

Industrial interests

By the 1880s and 1890s, Fedor controlled or had interests in:

• sugar factories
• beet plantations
• flour mills
• distilleries
• large agricultural estates
• rail connections serving the factories

His enterprises helped make the Tereshchenkos among the richest families in the empire.

Their estates covered over 700,000 hectares in southern Russia and they operated more than a dozen large sugar refineries employing more than 60,000 workers. He was initially married around 1855 to Maria Pavlovna Podlaneva but little is known of the circumstances and no progeny is known to have resulted from that union. It was said that Arteiman did not approve and it was annulled sometime later and never spoken about again.

In 1883 he married Nadehzda Vladimirovna Hlopoff. Her family was of an ancient noble order with direct ancestry to Rurik and King Pepin the Short, father of Charlemagne. Her family also had significant land holdings that complemented those of the Tereshchenkos in both Ukraine and Russia. Together they produced three children: Nadehzda, Nathalie and Fedor (Theodore Jr.).

In 1893 he attended the Chicago World Exposition representing the Tereshchenko industrial enterprises including a beer and vodka factory, sugar beet exports and processing machinery. He died in Moscow on 12 June 1894, bequeathing substantial cash, estates, industrial plants and agricultural properties to his son Fedor Jr. and his two daughters. See Wills.