People · Kyivans in history

Famous KyivansPatrons and entrepreneurs

Princes and saints, poets and aviators, patrons and adventurers — people who were born, lived or worked in Kyiv. Biographies, addresses and places to visit.

56 people
11 categories
12 centuries (X–XXI c.)

Patrons and entrepreneurs

6 people

Mykola (Nikola) TereshchenkoSugar magnate and philanthropist1819–1903The “sugar king” who lived in Kyiv from 1875 and funded its gymnasiums, schools, shelters, the Polytechnic Institute and the city museum. Tereshchenkivska Street bears his name.
Bohdan and Varvara KhanenkoArt collectors and patrons1849–1917 · 1852–1922A collector couple who spent 40 years assembling one of the finest private art collections in the empire and left it to Kyiv. Their home at 15 Tereshchenkivska Street is now the Khanenko Museum.
Lazar BrodskySugar magnate, philanthropist1848–1904Kyiv’s “sugar king”, who paid for the Choral Synagogue (1898) and the Bessarabsky Market and backed the Polytechnic, the Bacteriological Institute and the Jewish hospital.
Halshka HulevychivnaFounder of the Kyiv Brotherhood Schoolбл. 1575–1642A Volhynian noblewoman who in 1615 gave her estate on Podil to the Kyiv Brotherhood for a monastery and school — the date from which Kyiv-Mohyla Academy counts its history.
Ivan MazepaHetman, church builder1639–1709The hetman who made Kyiv a showcase of “Mazepa Baroque”: the Lavra’s stone walls, All Saints Church, St Nicholas Military Cathedral, a remodelled St Sophia and the Mohyla Academy building.
Mykhailo DehteriovMerchant and philanthropist1831–1899A Kyiv merchant who left the city about 4.5 million rubles. The money built the Dehteriov almshouses in Lukianivka — hence the name of Dehtiarivska Street.