The son of a sculptor and painter-caricaturist Ivan Terebenev, a graduate of the Imperial Academy of Arts from 1824 till 1836, Showed a brilliant success in sculpting, doing them under the guidance of Professor V. Demoute-Malinovsky . After graduating from the academic course in 1835 with the title of the artist XIV class and with a small gold medal, received for the program fashioned a bas-relief of "John the Baptist preaching in the desert", left at the Academy retired to further his improvement, but he rejected this title, as his marriage to the daughter of Professor A. Egorova deprived him of his right to be sent at public expense to Italy. From this time he began to work solely for making money. The first case to show your talent in a significant labour introduced myself to him with the resumption of the Winter Palace after the fire. They fulfilled, in addition, a round shape for the entrance and front staircase of the building the Board of Trustees and the colossal baths of Atlanta and was made of granite that adorns the entrance of the Imperial Hermitage. These sculptures are so pleased with the Emperor Nicholas I , that he has bestowed upon them artist a diamond ring (in 1846) and ordered to make them again, for a gift to the king of Prussia. They also brought Terebeneva the title of academician in 1845. Since 1850, he served at the Hermitage as an assistant to the 2nd office on the sculptural part. Unfortunately, frivolous lifestyle often prevented him to work assiduously. Until he had orders, he lived an open house in Grand style: dinner parties and fun dinners followed one another; when there was no work, he borrowed money or sold its luxury furniture and obtaining a new order again got a nifty utensils. But soon came other talented, more careful sculptors, and a brilliant time activities changed for Terebenev deprivation and need. Obsessed "delirium tremens", he found his deplorable end in Saint-Petersburg Obukhovskoy hospital. The most important works Terebenev, in excess of the above: busts of actor V. A. up Karatygin (cast in bronze and placed on the tomb of this artist, at the St. Petersburg Smolensk cemetery), gr. D. I. Khvostov , Slanina , artist Vasilenko, N. In. Puppeteer of the Emperor Nicholas I and his wife (sent to Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna ) and the monument to Duke Maximilian of Leuchtenberg, in the form of a sarcophagus (in the Catholic chapel of the corps of pages).
