Nikolay Vereshchagin

Nikolay Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (; ) was a Russian entrepreneur who belonged to the organisers of the mass Russian cheese and butter industry; a rural manager-practitioner known for his labours to improve the homegrown dairy farming industry, founder of the first Russian artel cheese factories. A nobleman.

Biography In 1850 Nikolai entered the Naval Cadet Corps at his father's behest, and graduated from it. He became a midshipman, then a lieutenant, and received a medal for military operations during the Crimean War in the Gulf of Finland. Aleksey (revolutionary) Sergey Vereshchagin (died volunteering for the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878) Mikhail (was engaged in homestead farming)

His wife was Tatyana (nee Vanina, a former serf)