Simon Artemievich Tereshchenko (25 May 1839 in Hlukhiv – 1893) was a millionaire, Hlukhiv city bank director, Glushkovsky cloth factory owner, and Kherson Oblast salt mine director.
Simon was married to Olympia Viktorovna Velentei (Varengo, Tereshchenko).
And from September 26, 1870 he was declared as an official representator for Imperial Society special assignments.
Simon Tereshchenko is known as the romantic creator of the famous and unique Tereshchenko rose,[1] that he ordered to be developed and bred by the French rosarian known for his cultivation of rose cultivars Louis Lévêque[2] in France, 1882, while the time the family lived in Paris.
Louis Lévêque was very respectable florist among noble aristocratic and royal families.