Artemy Tereshchenko
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Artemy Yakovlevich Tereshchenko was the first entrepreneur in the Tereshchenko family and the founder of the Tereshchenko dynasty, one of the wealthiest families in the world. Nicknamed "Karbovanets",
Artemy Tereshchenko
Alexander II by E.Botman (1856, Russian museum)
Emancipation reform of 1861
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The emancipation reform of 1861 in Russia, also known as the Edict of Emancipation of Russia, was the first and most important of the liberal reforms enacted during the reign of Emperor Alexander II o
Artemy Tereshchenko
…Using huge profits earned during the war, the Tereshchenkos invested his capital in purchase of land and construction of sugar factories. Following the abolition of serfdom, they acquired properties of numerous aristocrats, who couldn't compete in the new circumstances. In 1872 the Tereshchenko Brothers Society of Sugar…
A 1907 painting by Boris Kustodiev depicting Russian serfs listening to the proclamation of the Emancipation Manifesto in 1861
Peasants Reading the Emancipation Manifesto, an 1873 painting by Grigory Myasoyedov
The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia: Work in Freedom is the Foundation of a State (1914), by Alphonse Mucha, The Slav Epic