Bogdan Khanenko ( ua, Богдан Іванович Ханенко; 1848,
Surazhsky Uyezd Surazhsky Uyezd (''Суражский уезд'') was one of the subdivisions of the Chernigov Governorate of the Russian Empire. It was situated in the northern part of the governorate. Its administrative centre was Surazh.
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– 1917,
Kiev
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) was a
Ukrainian
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-born lawyer, sugar industrialist, and art collector. He is a member of a well known Ukrainian Khanenko family, which includes such personalities like
Mykhailo Khanenko
Mykhailo Stepanovych Khanenko ( pl, Michał Chanenko, uk, Михайло Степанович Ханенко) (ca. 1620 – 1680) was a Ukrainian Cossack military leader, and nominal hetman of Right-bank Ukraine from 1669-74 in rivalry with Petr ...
and Danylo Khanenko. Along with his wife Varvara, Bogdan Khanenko is known for his philanthropic activities towards art and its preservation in the
Russian Empire
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.
Biography
Khanenko family which includes such personalities like
Mykhailo Khanenko
Mykhailo Stepanovych Khanenko ( pl, Michał Chanenko, uk, Михайло Степанович Ханенко) (ca. 1620 – 1680) was a Ukrainian Cossack military leader, and nominal hetman of Right-bank Ukraine from 1669-74 in rivalry with Petr ...
and Danylo Khanenko was of Cossack origin. On his mother's side, he belonged to the Russian-German von Nilus family.
In 1871 Khanenko graduated from the law department of
Moscow University
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and served as a judge in
St. Petersburg
Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...
and
Warsaw
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. By the end of 1880, he retired and settled in Kiev, marrying
Varvara Tereshchenko
Varvara Nikolovna Khanenko (née: Tereshchenko) (russian: Варва́ра Никола́евна Хане́нко; uk, Варвара Ніколівна Ханенко) was the eldest daughter of the entrepreneur, sugar king, philanthropist and ...
, daughter of sugar industrialist
Nikolai Tereshchenko
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.
Khanenko was a famous patron of the arts, and during his forty-year collection activity he purchased works from art auctions in
Vienna
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Berlin
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,
Paris
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, and
Madrid
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. His most valuable purchases resulted from his trips to Italy, where he obtained approximately 100 pieces through auctions in Rome and Florence, and with the assistance of
Alexander Rizzoni
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, a Russian-born painter living in Rome. He built a
Museum of Western and Oriental Art
The Khanenko Museum (official name: The Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts) is an art museum located in Kyiv, in Ukraine, which holds the biggest and most valuable collections of European, Asian and Ancient art in the country.
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with his unique and private foreign
art
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collection. After his death, the museum opened up to the public and was named after the couple.
In 1906 Bogdan Khanenko was elected to the
State Council of Imperial Russia
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Varvara Khanenko was
evicted
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from his own house by the Soviets and had to live, for the last months of her life, in the house of his
maid
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Bogdan
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