Ivan Vassilievitch Shchukin (1818-1890) was a Moscow merchant in the textile trade whose company, I.V.

Several of his sons formed important art collections around the end of the nineteenth and start of the twentieth centuries.

[2] He married Ekaterina, the daughter of Pyotr Konovich Botkin, a tea merchant and patron of the arts.

[5] 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.