Savva Morozov

Savva Timofeyevich Morozov (Russian: Са́вва Тимофе́евич Моро́зов, 15 February [O.S. 3 February] 1862, Orekhovo-Zuevo, Bogorodsky Uyezd (Russian: ),Moskovskaya Guberniya (Russian: ), Russian Empire – 26 May [O.S. 13 May] 1905, Cannes, France) was a Russian textiles magnate and philanthropist. Established by Savva Vasilievich Morozov (Russian: ), the Morozov family was the fifth richest in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.

Morozov house at Trehsvyatitelskaya Lane 1-3c1

Morozov house from the garden

Another view of Morozov house

View of the Morozov gardens from the Ukraintseva Chamber (Russian: )

Savva Timofeyevich Morozov came from an Old Believer merchant family which held the hereditary civil rank of honorary citizen (Russian: ). This gave him freedom from conscription, freedom from corporal punishment, and freedom from taxation (Russian: ). He grew up at the Morozov house at Trehsvyatitelskaya Lane 1-3c1 (Russian: ) on Ivanovo Hill (Russian: ) in the White City (Russian: ), now the boulevards, of Moscow. He attended nearby at . His family home was the most expensive home in Moscow and its Morozov gardens (Russian: ) were a favorite place of S. Aksakov, F. Dostoevsky, A. Ostrovsky, L. Tolstoy, and P. Tchaikovsky. Later, he studied physics and mathematics at Moscow University (1885) where he wrote a study on dye and met Mendeleev. Beginning on January 7, 1885, at 10 o'clock in the morning, textile workers at the Morozov factories in Bogorodsk, especially Orekhovo-Zuyevo, went on strike for several weeks. In 1885-1887, he studied chemistry at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). While he was in England, he studied the structure of the textile industry in Great Britain, especially Manchester.

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