Former Museum of Western and Eastern iskusstva carry the name of its founders, who passed under his own mansion. Before his death, Mr Khanenko commanded art collection, a family mansion, and a unique library of Kyiv, with the condition that the museum would bear his name. After the Revolution Kiev government changed 6 times. In 1918, Barbara gave Nikolovna husband commanded the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, which, in its view, should act under any power. In 1934 the museum merged with the Kiev art gallery in a single State Art Museum, which in 1936 became the Kiev State Museum of Western and Oriental art. Last founders removed from the name of the museum in 1923, was returned only after 75 years - at the end of 1999. Khanenko spouses gathered at the St Petersburg Collection exhibition in 1908 was recognized as the best private collections in Russia. Included ancient Egyptian sculpture and, Oriental items, Byzantine and Russian icons and italokritskie, medieval stained glass, prints, paintings and sculptures of Italian, Dutch, French masters. Its decoration was the painting of Italian artists and 45 paintings by Western European Artists XVI-XVIII centuries. The collection was "Portrait of Infanta Margarita Diego Velazquez, sold by auction in Berlin in 1912. With the World, fearing the occupation of Kyiv, Khanenko most valuable kartiny transferred for storage. 90 cases were transferred to the Moscow Historical Museum, another part of the collection was in St Petersburg apartment in the Palace Embankment. But after the 1917 cases received from Kyiv were opened and their contents distributed among various museums or sold. Icons and several works by Italian masters of hanenkovskoy collection are in the Tretyakov Gallery, a few paintings - Rumyantsevskomu in museums in Moscow and one picture even showed in Tashkent. To replenish the treasury of the USSR many instances of the collection were removed. Information extracted Byzantine crosses, coins IV-XIII centuries., Bracelets, cups, earrings lost after 1939 is reason to assume that these products have been highly historical thoughtlessly Fused in bars. Now the museum has one of the best collections of zar. art in Ukraine.