Bogdan Ivanovich Khanenko

Bohdan Khanenko (; ; 1849, Surazhsky Uyezd – 1917, Kiev) was a Ukrainian lawyer, sugar industrialist, and art collector. He belonged to the well known Khanenko family, which included such personalities as Mykhailo Khanenko and Danylo Khanenko. Along with his wife Varvara, Bohdan Khanenko was known for his philanthropic activities towards art and its preservation in Ukraine and the Russian Empire.

Biography Khanenko was born on 23 January 1849 in the village of Lotoky, which was then part of the Chernigov Governorate in the Russian Empire at the time of his birth. He was born on the grounds of the large estate granted to the Khanenko family by Hetman Kirill Razumovsky. Through his paternal side, he was from the Khanenko family, a family of Cossack origin which includes such personalities like Mykhailo Khanenko and Danylo Khanenko.

He first graduated from the 1st Moscow Gymnasium, before in 1871 graduated from the Department of Law of Moscow University. After graduating, in 1873, he moved to St. Petersburg to work within the Department of Justice serving as a Justice of the Peace. However, he moved not too long later in 1876 when he was appointed a member of the Warsaw District Court.