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Elisei Morozov
Elisei Savvich Morozov (1798–1868) was the eldest son of Savva Vasilyevich Morozov of the Morozov dynasty. In 1837 he married Evdokiia Nikiforovna. His father developed some wasteland on the right bank of the Klyazma River at a location which became Nikolskoye. In 1837, Elisei established a dye works next door but lost interest in the enterprise after becoming an Old Believer Old Believers or Old Ritualists, ''starovery'' or ''staroobryadtsy'' are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian Orthodox Church as they were before the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow bet .... As he became more interested in religion, he spent his time writing religious tracts while his wife, Evdokiia, ran the business. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Morozov, Elisei Savvich 1798 births 1868 deaths Old Believers Businesspeople from the Russian Empire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Savva Vasilyevich Morozov
Savva Vasilyevich Morozov (24 April 1770 – 1860) was an eighteenth-century Russian entrepreneur, who founded the Morozov dynasty. Origins He was born a serf, his father, a fisherman having been sold by Vsevoloshsky along with other serfs, building and structures as part of the village of Zuevo to a collegiate counsellor called Ryumin. But when he was twenty years old, Savva was not content with the life of a peasant. He worked in a textile factory belonging to Fedor Kononov, who lent him 1,500 roubles to buy himself out of compulsory military service. He then married Ulyana, who shared with him her families secret method of dying fabric, and Savva was able to repay his debt in two years. Morozov benefitted from the shortage of textiles in the Russian Empire following the destruction of the textile industry around Moscow by Napoleon. Business activities Innovations Morozov was the first entrepreneur to import textile machinery from England. He imported machines from Hick, Harg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morozovs
The Morozovs (russian: Морозовы) is a famous Old Believers Russian family of merchants and entrepreneurs. The family name Morozov originates from a Russian word ''moroz'' (мороз) that means ''frost''. The founder of the family was Savva Vasilyevich Morozov (1770–1862). He had five sons and a daughter, Varvara Savvichna Morozova. The merchant family of Morozovs should not be confused with another famous Old Believer: boyarynya Feodosiya Morozova (and her family). The latter were boyars, whereas almost all the other famous Morozovs were merchants, and also descendants of peasants. Five sons Savva Vasilyevich's sons were all involved in his business: * Elisei Savvich Morozov (1798-1868) * Zhakar Savvich Morozov (1802–1857) * Abram Savvich Morozov (1806–1856) * Ivan Savvich Morozov (1810–1864) * Timofei Savvich Morozov (1823–1889) The four branches The family business was divided into four in 1871. * Zakharovichi: Ivan Zakharovich Morozov, (Bogorodsk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klyazma River
The Klyazma (, ''Klyaz'ma''), a river in the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo and Vladimir Oblasts in Russia, forms a left tributary of the Oka.Клязьма The river has a length of . The area of its is . The Klyazma usually freezes up in November and stays under the ice until mid-April, although in faster-moving stretches ice-free water occurs until the air temperature drops below . The largest tributaries of the Klyazma include (from source to mouth): [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolskoye, Pokrovsky Uyezd, Vladimir Governorate
Nikolskoye was a historic town in Pokrovsky Uyezd, Vladimir Governorate, Imperial Russia. Since 1917, it has been part of the city of Orekhovo-Zuyevo. The town played a significant part in the development of the textile sector in Imperial Russia. Early development The settlement grew up in the seventeenth and eighteenth century around the church of St Nicholas. The location was transformed when Savva Vasilyevich Morozov bought land here in 1797. After he had bought his freedom in 1820, he moved his business from his nearby native village of Zuevo. In the period 1837-1838 he established a new factory on wasteland. By 1859 it had a registered population of 2,489 people. This rose to 25,203 in 1897. The Morozov property in Nikolskoye was split between Vikul Eliseevich Morozov and his uncle Timofei Savvich Morozov which sat side by side each other on the banks of the Klyazma River. Morozov strike 1885 In January 1885, the Morozovs' Nikolskoye factory took part in a strike wave w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Believers
Old Believers or Old Ritualists, ''starovery'' or ''staroobryadtsy'' are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian Orthodox Church as they were before the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666. Resisting the accommodation of Russian piety to the contemporary forms of Greek Orthodox worship, these Christians were anathematized, together with their ritual, in a Synod of 1666–67, producing a division in Eastern Europe between the Old Believers and those who followed the state church in its condemnation of the Old Rite. Russian speakers refer to the schism itself as ''raskol'' (), etymologically indicating a "cleaving-apart". Introduction In 1652, Patriarch Nikon (1605–1681; patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1652 to 1658) introduced a number of ritual and textual revisions with the aim of achieving uniformity between the practices of the Russian and Greek Orthodox churches. Nikon, having notice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1798 Births
Events January–June * January – Eli Whitney contracts with the U.S. federal government for 10,000 muskets, which he produces with interchangeable parts. * January 4 – Constantine Hangerli enters Bucharest, as Prince of Wallachia. * January 22 – A coup d'état is staged in the Netherlands ( Batavian Republic). Unitarian Democrat Pieter Vreede ends the power of the parliament (with a conservative-moderate majority). * February 10 – The Pope is taken captive, and the Papacy is removed from power, by French General Louis-Alexandre Berthier. * February 15 – U.S. Representative Roger Griswold (Fed-CT) beats Congressman Matthew Lyon (Dem-Rep-VT) with a cane after the House declines to censure Lyon earlier spitting in Griswold's face; the House declines to discipline either man.''Harper's Encyclopaedia of United States History from 458 A. D. to 1909'', ed. by Benson John Lossing and, Woodrow Wilson (Harper & Brothers, 1910) p171 * March &ndas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1868 Deaths
Events January–March * January 2 – British Expedition to Abyssinia: Robert Napier leads an expedition to free captive British officials and missionaries. * January 3 – The 15-year-old Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, declares the ''Meiji Restoration'', his own restoration to full power, under the influence of supporters from the Chōshū and Satsuma Domains, and against the supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate, triggering the Boshin War. * January 5 – Paraguayan War: Brazilian Army commander Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias enters Asunción, Paraguay's capital. Some days later he declares the war is over. Nevertheless, Francisco Solano López, Paraguay's president, prepares guerrillas to fight in the countryside. * January 7 – The Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock. * January 9 – Penal transportation from Britain to Australia ends, with arrival of the convict ship ''Hougoumont'' in Western Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
