Savva Timofeyevich Morozov

Russian businessman (1862–1905)

In the history of enterprise, Savva Timofeyevich Morozov is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Savva Timofeyevich Morozov as Russian businessman (1862–1905).

Savva Timofeyevich Morozov was born at Orekhovo-Zuyevo in 1862. His recorded nationality is Russia. He was educated at Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Moscow Imperial University.

Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.

He worked as merchant, entrepreneur and patron of the arts.

Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.

That the business was built from Russia shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

Savva Timofeyevich Morozov died in 1905, aged 43. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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