Mikhail Tereshchenko
| Mikhail Tereshchenko Михаил Терещенко |
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| First Finance Minister of Russian Provisional Government | |
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In office 17 March 1917 – 4 May 1917 |
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| Foreign Minister of Russia | |
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In office 5 May 1917 – 26? October 1917 |
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| Preceded by | Pavel Milyukov |
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18 March 1886 Kiev, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) |
| Died | 1 April 1956 (aged 70) Monaco |
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Margaret Noe (?-1923) Ebba Horst (1926-?) |
| Children | a daughter a daughter Petr Tereshchenko (1917-?) |
Mikhail Ivanovich Tereshchenko (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Тере́щенко; Ukrainian: Михайло Іванович Терещенко) (18 March 1886, in Kiev – 1 April 1956, in Monaco) was the foreign minister of Russia from 5 May 1917 to 25? October 1917. He was also a major Ukrainian landowner, owner of several sugar factories, and financier.
Born to a rich Tereshchenko family of a sugar factory owners, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and art patrons of Ivan Nikolaevich (1854–1903) and Elizabeth Mikhailovna. Mikhail had a younger brother Mykola (1894-?). His uncle Aleksandr Tereshchenko (1856–1911) worked in Saint-Petersburg. Mikhail Tereshchenko graduated from Kiev University and Leipzig University. In 1910, he joined the Freemasonry and became one of the five prominent Masons in Russia (the other four being Alexander Konovalov, Alexander Kerensky, Nikolai Nekrasov, and Ivan Yefremov). Mikhail Tereshchenko was a member of the Fourth State Duma (he shared the views of the Russian Progressive Party). In 1912–1914, Tereshchenko was the owner of a private publishing house Sirin in St Petersburg, which published Andrey Bely's pioneering novel Petersburg in three installments in 1913-14. During World War I, he took part in organizing the Red Cross hospitals. In 1915–1917, Mikhail Tereshchenko was the chairman of the Military Industry Committee of the Kiev district and deputy chairman of the All-Russian Military Industry Committee.
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