History

Savva Morozov came from an Old Believer merchant family Morozov, was a hereditary honorary citizen.

He spent his childhood in the estate in Tryokhsvyatitelsky Lane. He graduated from the 4th Moscow gymnasium at the Pokrovsky Gate (1881).

In 1881 he entered the natural department of the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the Moscow Imperial University, from which he graduated in 1887 with a diploma in chemistry. During these years he wrote a significant work - a study on dyes, and later communicated with Mendeleev.

In 1885 - 1887 he studied chemistry at the University of Cambridge (Great Britain), at the same time he got acquainted with the organization of textile business in English factories (in Manchester).

Since 1886 he was the managing director of the Association of the Nikolskaya manufactory "Savva Morozov's son and Co."