Vladimir Golenishchev

[3] After Semyon's unexpected death, the newly widowed Sofya Gavrilovna passed the management of the businesses to a relative and spent her time raising her children Vladimir and Nadezhda.

[4] In addition to his study of Egyptology, Golenishchev became proficient in more than a dozen languages including Russian, French, German, and English.

In the course of the following two decades, he traveled to Egypt more than sixty times and brought back an enormous collection of more than 6,000 ancient Egyptian antiquities, including such priceless relics as the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, the Story of Wenamun, the Alexandrian World Chronicle, and various Fayum portraits, the Teaching of King Merikare, and the Prophecy of the Priest Nefer-rehu.

[4] Alexandrovitch Turaev also persuaded Golenishchev to sell his collection of Egyptian statuary to the Moscow Museum of Fine Arts.

[4] These papyri are invaluable for language studies and include the Story of Wenamun, recounting the tribulations and humiliations of an Egyptian emissary to Byblos in the New Kingdom's degraded, waning days.

In 2006 on the 150th anniversary of his birth, a monument was erected for Golenishchev at the Cairo Egyptian Museum, adding him to the memorial of some of the great Egyptologists of the world.

[7] His papers are held at the Pushkin Museum, at the Centre Wladimir Golenischeff in Paris, France, and also at the Griffith Institute in Oxford, England.

Golenishchev remains considered the first and most accomplished Russian Egyptologist and is revered for his dedicated work restoring, cataloging, and researching ancient Egyptian monuments.