Savva Morozov

[1][2] Savva Timofeyevich Morozov came from an Old Believer merchant family which held the hereditary civil rank of honorary citizens (Russian: Почётные граждане).

[3] Savva Morozov married his second-cousin's former wife Zinaida Grigorievna, née Zimin (Russian: Зинаида Григорьевна Зимина).

[5][b] They hosted lavish parties and balls which many distinguished Russians and Moscovites attended including Savva Mamontov, Botkin, Feodor Chaliapin, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekhov, Konstantin Stanislavski, Pyotr Boborykin, and others.

[6][7][8] During the summer of 1902, with participation of both Ivan Fomin and Alexander Galetsky, Savva funded Schechtel's improvements to the Lianozov-owned[c] theatre built in 1890 at Kamergersky Lane 3 in Tverskoy.

[7] Influenced by Maxim Gorky, Morozov and his relative Nikolai Pavlovich Schmidt[d] were significant financial contributors to the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party, including making payments to the newspaper Iskra.

[11][12] According to the author Suzanne Massie, writing in Land of the Firebird, Morozov had approached his mother and family matriarch about introducing profit-sharing with factory workers - one of the first industrialists to propose such an idea.