Elisei Savvich Morozov (1798–1868) was the eldest son of
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, buil ...
of the Morozov dynasty. In 1837 he married Evdokiia Nikiforovna.
His father developed some wasteland on the right bank of the
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.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.