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 Uk