Bogdan Khanenko (1848–1917) was a Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

-born lawyer, sugar industrialist, and art collector.

Biography

In 1871 Khanenko graduated from the law department of Moscow University and served as a judge in St Petersburg and Warsaw. By the end of 1880 he retired and settled in Kiev, marrying Varvara Tereshchenko, daughter of sugar industrialist Nikolai Tereshchenko.

Khanenko was a famous patron of the arts, and during his forty-year collection activity he purchased works from art auctions in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, and Madrid. His most valuable purchases resulted from his trips to Italy where he obtained approximately 100 pieces through auctions in Rome and Florence. He built a Museum of Western and Oriental Art

Museum of Western and Oriental Art

Museum of Western and Oriental Art in Kiev, also known as the Bogdan and Varvara Khanenko Museum of Art is the largest collection of foreign art in Ukraine....

 with his unique and private foreign art

Art

Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....

 colleciton. 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

State Council of Imperial Russia

The State Council was the supreme state advisory body to the Tsar in Imperial Russia.-18th century:Early Tsars' Councils were small and dealt primarily with the external politics....

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Varvara Khanenko was evicted

Eviction

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 from his own house by the Soviets and had to live, for the last months of his life, in the house of his maid

Maid

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servant Dunyasha.