Sergei Timofejewitsch Morozov

Sergei Timofeyevich Morozov ( Russian Сергей Тимофеевич Морозов * July 27 ^{. Jul} / 8. August  1860 ^greg. In Moscow ; † 11. December 1944 in Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois (Essonne) ) was a Russian businessman and patron .

Life

Morosow was the youngest son of the old-believing chairman of the board of the textile company Sawwa Morosow Sohn und Co. with Nikolskaja Manufaktura and his wife Marija Fyodorovna Morosowa . Morozov attended Moscow 4th grammar school with his brother Sawwa, graduating in 1881. He then entered the university department of the Moscow Heir apparent Nicholas Lyceum and then studied at the law faculty of Moscow University , graduating in 1887 as a candidate for law . In 1883 he and others founded the Russian Gymnastics Society under the influence of the Pan-Slav Sokol movement .

Handicraft Museum, Leontjewski Pereulok 7, Moscow

1888-1889 Morozov took part in the work of the Moscow governorate Zemstvo in 1885 founded handicraft museum , which was located in a wing of the villa VJ Lepeschkina. In 1890 he took over the management of the museum. In 1897 he became honorary curator of the museum. In 1903 Morosow bought the two-story building of the publisher Anatoli Iwanowitsch Mamontow on Leontjewski Pereulok and expanded it to house the handicraft museum. In addition to the funds of the Zemstvo, he supported the museum with his own funds. In 1910 he proposed to the Zemstvo a radical reorganization of the promotion of crafts, which also included the reorganization of the museum. In addition to the new office for trade promotion and the trade department, there was the previous handicraft museum, which, as a museum for design, was to become an artistic-experimental laboratory headed by the artist Nikolai Dmitrijewitsch Bartram . Morosow collected objects of Russian decorative and applied arts from the 17th to 19th centuries. Century, with which he expanded the museum collections.

In 1898, together with his brother Savva and other Moscow merchants, Morozov founded a public theater that became the Moscow Art Theater . In the same year he became a member of the committee for the construction of the Museum of Applied Art at Moscow University. In 1900 Morosow was connected as a sponsor to the Kaiser Alexander II Art Museum , the Strekalowski Tailoring School and the Stroganow School for Technical Drawing . Anna Semyonovna Golubkina portrayed him. He financed the art magazine Mir Iskusstwa . He supported Isaak Ilyich Levitan , who lived and worked in Morosov's house from 1892 to 1900. Morosow painted landscapes himself and was interested in music . Ivan Andrejewitsch Hermann built the maternity clinic of the Staro-Ekaterinskaya Hospital, named after Morozov, at Morozov's expense, which opened in 1909 with 74 beds. He lived on Powarskaya Street . His country seat Uspenskoye was near Zvenigorod .

After the death of his brother Sawwa in 1905, Morosow took over the management of Morosow-Manufaktura. After the outbreak of World War I , Morozov donated 200,000 rubles for wartime needs. In 1916 he made one of his scholarships available to the Institute of the Old Believer Congregation.

After the October Revolution , the Morosows were expropriated. The Morosow Museum became the Museum of Folk Art , and Morosow was able to stay in the museum as a craft advisor.

In 1925 Morosow emigrated to France . There he married Olga Wassiljewna Kriwoscheina (1866-1953), the youngest sister of the politician Alexander Wassiljewitsch Kriwoschein , with whom he lived in modest circumstances. They had no children and looked after their nephew Nikita Igorewitsch Kriwoschein (* 1934), who lived as a translator in the USSR and in France after the Second World War . Morozov was buried in the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois .

50 years after Morosow's death, it was decided to rearrange Morosow's estate in the Museum of Folk Art and to keep the museum in the historical building on Leontjewski Pereulok. In 1999 the museum was assigned to the All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art, founded in 1981 in the Ostermann Palace.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Buryschkin PA : Москва купеческая . Moscow 1991.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Mamontowa NN : Сергей Тимофеевич Морозов и московский Кустарный музей. Первые Морозовские чтения. Сборник докладов . Noginsk 1996 ( bogorodsk-noginsk.ru [accessed January 7, 2019]).
3. ↑ Российская музейная энциклопедия. Т. 2 . Moscow 2001, p. 7-8 .
4. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Всероссийский музей декоративно-прикладного и народного искусства: Сергей Томофеевич Мор (accessed January 7, 2019.
5. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Русские художественные промыслы: Сергей Тимофеевич Морозо (accessed January 7, 2019).
6. ↑ Морозова Т. П., Поткина И. В .: Савва Морозов . Moscow 1998, p. 29 .
7. ↑ Власов П. В .: Благотворительность и милосердие в России . Moscow 2001, p. 76, 181 .
8. ↑ Вся Москва: 1901 . Moscow, S. 294 .