Ivan Vassilievitch Shchukin (1818-1890) was a Moscow merchant in the textile trade whose company, I.V. Shchukin and Sons, became one of the largest textile businesses in Russia. Several of his sons formed important art collections around the end of the nineteenth and start of the twentieth centuries.

Early life and family

Ivan Vassilievitch Shchukin was born in 1818 from an

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background. He married Ekaterina, the daughter of Pyotr Konovich Botkin, a tea merchant and patron of the arts. Their ten children"The man who loved Monet: Russia's greatest art collector" by Nancy Durrant, ''Saturday Review'', ''The Times'', 15 October 2016, pp. 8-9. included

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(1853-1912) who built an important collection of Russian ancient art and artifacts and owned several impressionist masterpieces,

Sergei Shchukin Sergei Ivanovich Shchukin (russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Щу́кин; 10 January 1936) was a Russian businessman who became an art collector, mainly of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Early life and family Sergei I ...

(1854-1936), who was also a noted art collector,

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, who assembled "Moscow's best collection of Old Masters" that eventually entered the

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, and Ivan Shchukin (1869-1908), who also collected art.

Career

Shchukin was a self-made Moscow merchant in the textile trade whose company, I.V. Shchukin and Sons, became one of the largest textile companies in Russia and enabled him to acquire a wealth of 4 million gold rubles.SERGEI IVANOVICH SHCHUKIN.

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (russian: Музей изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина, abbreviated as ) is the largest museum of European art in Moscow, located in Volkhonka street, just oppo ...

. Retrieved 22 October 2016.

Death and legacy

Shchukin died in 1890, leaving his business to his son Sergei Shchukin, which gave him the wealth necessary to form his collection of modern art.

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Businesspeople from the Russian Empire Businesspeople in textiles 1818 births 1890 deaths {{Russia-business-bio-stub