Timofey Savvich Morozov

Russian businessman (1823–1889)

In the history of enterprise, Timofey Savvich Morozov is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Timofey Savvich Morozov as Russian businessman (1823–1889).

Timofey Savvich Morozov was born at Moscow in 1823. His recorded nationality is Russia.

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

He worked as merchant and entrepreneur.

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.

Timofey Savvich Morozov died in 1889, aged 66. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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