Fyodor Ivanovich Lisitsyn (Russian: Фёдор Иванович Лисицын) was a progenitor of the dynasty, a weapons-maker and metalworker at his own brass factory in Tula.
In 1778 they made a samovar, and the same year Nazar Lisitsyn registered the first samovar-making factory in Russia.
He had a great success with his samovars at the pan-Russia Fair in Nizhny Novgorod and managed to sell much of the production to Bukhara and Khiva in Central Asia, where sphere-shaped samovars had become popular.
In 1856 Nikita Lisitsyn received a medal and a kaftan in recognition of the quality of his samovars.
In 1863 Lisitsyn participated in an exhibition, organised on the arrival of a son of Alexander II of Russia to Tula.