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Savva Morozov was a Russian textile magnate and philanthropist, heir to a family fortune stablished by Savva Vasilyevich Morozov (1770–1862).

In 1798 the first child of Savva and Ulyana, Elisei, was born, and, by the time their fourth son appeared, Morozov's workshop, employing twenty workers, was.

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Savva Morozov was a Russian textile magnate and philanthropist, heir to a family fortune stablished by Savva Vasilyevich Morozov (1770–1862)..

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Savva Morozov was a famous Russian industrialist and theatrical patron.

At the beginning of the 20th century some 25 families comprised the select pride and glory of the Moscow mercantile industry. Seven of these bore the surname Morozov, and were related.

Early years

Savva Morozov was born into the richest and most well-known textile manufacturing and merchant family in Russia.

Born a serf in a small village some 50 miles from Moscow, he managed in 1797 to obtain his freedom and the right to begin a family business.

The Morozovs owned several of the largest cotton textile mills, which employed, at the time Savva was born, some 39 thousand people. They were, indeed, millionaires. Savva’s family belonged to the Orthodox Raskolniks, or dissenters, which meant that Savva was brought up in the spirit of religious asceticism and deference of Old Russian customs and traditions.

The family business had, initially, been started by Savva's grandfather, an ignorant, illiterate, but, undeniably enterprising and thrifty peasant. His son, Timo