Nikolay_Vereshchagin
Nikolay Vereshchagin
Russian entrepreneur
Nikolay Vasilyevich Vereshchagin[lower-alpha 2] (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]