Education
Mikhail Tereshchenko graduated from Kiev University and Leipzig University.
Diplomat minister of foreign affairs
Mikhail Tereshchenko graduated from Kiev University and Leipzig University.
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. In 1912–1914, Tereshchenko was the owner of a private publishing house Sirin in Street St. Petersburg, which published Andrey Bely"s pioneering novel St. Petersburg in three installments in 1913-1914.
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. After the February Revolution of 1917, Mikhail Tereshchenko was appointed Minister of Finance of the Provisional Kerensky Government.
In April 1917, Tereshchenko (together with Kerensky and Nekrasov) was actively seeking to create a governmental interparty coalition with the Socialists. On 5 May 1917, he was appointed minister of foreign affairs after the resignation of Pavel Milyukov.
Tereshchenko continued his foreign policy course, which led to his conflict with Minister of War Alexander Verkhovsky, who had considered Russia to be unable to continue the war.
Tereshchenko was known to support the Ukrainian government that led to the establishment and recognition of the General Secretariat in Ukraine 1917. On the night of 26 October, Mikhail Tereshchenko was arrested in the Winter Palace with other ministers of the Provisional Government and placed into the Peter and Paul Fortress. In the spring of 1918, he escaped from prison and fled to Norway with the Tereshchenko diamond and then France.
Tereshchenko was one of the supporters of allied intervention in Soviet Russia.
In 1920s and 1930s, he was engaged in financial activities in France and Madagascar. Freemason Halpern"s Lodge
The All-Russian Association of Sugar factories
Volga-Kama Bank
Kiev department of the Azov-Don Bank.
Freemason Halpern"s Lodge
The All-Russian Association of Sugar factories
Volga-Kama Bank
Kiev department of the Azov-Don Bank.