Aleksey Khludov

Aleksey Ivanovich Khludov (23 August 1818–22 March 1882) was a Russian Old Believer merchant who amassed the richest private collection of early medieval manuscripts in Imperial Russia.

The son of a peasant, Khludov rose to become a man of considerable fortune and chairman of the Moscow stock exchange committee from 1859 to 1865.

He specialized in early Russian, South Slavic, and Greek religious manuscripts, most of which he acquired from other Old Believer collectors.

Unsurprisingly, his collection boasted the richest assortment of documents concerning the early history of the Raskol.

His daughter Varvara Alekseevna Morozova married Abram Abramovich Morozov, grandson of Savva Vasilyevich Morozov, also an Old Believer who overcame their peasant origins to become a major industrialist in the textile industry.