Nikolay Vereshchagin

Russian entrepreneur

Entrepreneurship
Cheesemaking
Buttermaking

Years active1866–1898^[1]Known forbeing one of the organisers of mass cheese and butter production in RussiaFamilyVereshchagin

Nikolay Vasilyevich Vereshchagin^[b] (Russian: Николай Васильевич Верещагин, romanized: Nikolay Vasil'yevič Vereŝagin; 25 October [O.S. 13 October] 1839 – 26 March [O.S. 13 March] 1907) was a Russian entrepreneur who belonged to the organisers of the mass Russian cheese and butter industry;^[1] a rural manager-practitioner known for his labours to improve the homegrown dairy farming industry, founder of the first Russian artel cheese factories.^[2] A nobleman; brother of painter Vasily Vereshchagin.^[1]

Notes

^ The area was flooded during the creation of Rybinsk Reservoir.^[1]
^ In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Vasilyevich and the family name is Vereshchagin.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Guterts 2023.
^ Arsenyev & Petrushevsky 1894.

Citations

Guterts, A. V. (2023). "ВЕРЕЩАГИН НИКОЛАЙ ВАСИЛЬЕВИЧ". Great Russian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
Arsenyev, Konstantin; Petrushevsky, Fyodor (1894). "Верещагин" [Vereshchagin]. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). Vol. 11: Венцано – Винона. Friedrich A. Brockhaus (Leipzig), Ilya A. Efron (Saint Petersburg). pp. 28–29.