Nikolay Vereshchagin

Nikolay Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (Николай Васильевич Верещагин; 25 October 1839 – 26 March 1907) 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; brother of painter Vasily Vereshchagin.