Petro Kholodnyi
Petro Kholodnyi | |
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Петро Холодний | |
| Minister of Public Education of Ukraine | |
| In office 26 May 1919 – 1920 | |
| Prime Minister | |
| Preceded by | Antin Krushelnytskyi |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished (Hryhoriy Hrynko as People's Commissar for Education) |
| In office 26 December 1918 – 2 February 1919 | |
| Prime Minister | Volodymyr Chekhivskyi |
| Preceded by | Volodymyr Naumenko |
| Succeeded by | Ivan Ohienko |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 December 1875 Pereiaslav, Russian Empire |
| Died | 7 June 1930 (aged 54) Warsaw, Poland |
| Party | Ukrainian Party of Socialist-Federalists |
| Children | 1 (Petro) |
Petro Ivanovych Kholodnyi (Ukrainian: Петро Іванович Холодний; 18 December 1875 – 7 June 1930) was a Ukrainian painter and politician who served as Minister of Public Education from 1918 to 1920 in the government of the Ukrainian People's Republic. He was also a member of the Central Rada, Minister of Public Education of the Ukrainian People's Republic, painter, chemist. He was also an impressionist painter with a tendency to lyricism and a neo-Byzantine painter, a monumentalist, graphic artist, designer of applied art, and teacher. He is the father of the painter Petro Cholodny.
During the Ukrainian Revolution (1917–1921), he worked at the Secretariat of Public Education of the Ukrainian Central Rada and the Ministry of Education.
He headed the Ministry of Education of the UPR Directorate from 26 December 1918 to 2 February 1919 and from 26 May to the end of 1920.