Savva Timofeyevich 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.

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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