Morozov Abram Abramovich biography

Read here. Varenka loved music, theater, books, was brilliantly educated and surrounded by a progressive youth, not to mention what was known as the first Moscow beauty. Junker, cornets, artists and poets fell in love with her without memory. But she was not going to marry at the age of 17. In her girlish diary, a record was preserved: “Thousands of such, they get married without reasoning and are happy to be happy with each groom, and their whole goal is to marry, there will be children - and now the appointment of a woman is over.

Really only? No, a woman can do a lot besides marriage, she can help the poor not only materially, but also morally, she can rather direct them, reason ... But can I do all this and perform the duties of a woman? I still do not live now, my current life, it is possible, so to speak, a prelude to real life. ” But real life began for her with the moment that Abram Abramovich Morozov, a young millionaire and the owner of the Tver manufactory, asked her hands and heart.

Photo: A public treasure, of course, she refused. Firstly, she did not love him at all, and she should be married only for love. Secondly, she considered Abram Abramovich the old-still 27 years old, whether a joke. But the refusal caused a real attack of the rage of her father, the chairman of the Moscow Exchange Committee Alexei Ivanovich Khludov, who himself saw in alliance with Morozov the only way to correct the shared financial affairs of the family.

And suddenly this Pigalitsa, you see, will deign to reason in the spirit of French novels! Varenka was put under house arrest. She was not released anywhere - neither to the theater, nor for dancing. And she gave up. In the diary, she doomedly wrote: “Is it all the same, who to marry, this one, good, is rich! At least I will not tremble for the fate of my children.

” But she did not even imagine what tests her family life prepared for her. Even in the year, when Savva Vasilievich Morozov - this happened shortly before his death - divided the property between his sons, Abram Savvich got the Tver manufactory built on the leased land near the Christmas Sloboda near Tveria. It opened only the day before - in the year.

And so far it has not brought arrivals at all. Therefore, Abram Savvich also demanded the right to the family brand of the Nikolsky manufactory, whose products did not need excess advertising. But unexpectedly received a sharp abandonment of Timofei Savvich: they say, the Nikolskaya manufactory - she is alone. It even dawned on the trial, after which a clear chill began to show between the branches of the Morozov family.

The matter was complicated by the fact that Abram Savvich was seriously ill, because of the family Swara. Soon he died, and his wife Daria Davydovna Morozova, after the death of her husband, went into a strict monasticism, taking the name of the "Schimitsa of Devora". So the children - Abram and David had to engage in the affairs of the Tver manufactory.

Well, the Abramovichs coped. Moreover, Abram Abramovich was even related to the Khludovs-the dynasty of Moscow textile millionaire manufacturers, having married the daughter of the chairman of the Moscow Exchange Committee Varvara Khludova. But in the year a new blow followed: Abram Abramovich broke a neurological degenerative disease with progressive paralysis.

Which one - today not to recognize, and then the doctors made the millionaire a slurred diagnosis of “severe nervous disorder”. Barbara looked after a sick husband for seven years - until his death. Equipped a full -fledged ward in the bedroom, hired the best psychiatrist in Moscow Sergei Korsakov, about whom they said that he could have calmed the violent patient and "relieve mental pain." By the way, after the death of her husband, Varvara Alekseevna donated a lot of money for the construction of a psychiatric clinic named after A.

Morozov at the faculty of Moscow University. The painting by Konstantin Makovsky “Portrait of V. Photo: the State Tretyakov Gallery itself, the summer barbarian Alekseevna itself took the place of the director of the Partnership of the Tver manufactory. And when the sons reached the age of majority, she entered the board and them, leaving the post of general director. If Maria Fedorovna retained her devotion to the Old Believer Church, then Varvara Alekseevna was baptized in a regular Orthodox as a child.

In state Orthodoxy, she also raised children. The eldest son Mikhail Morozov at the age of 27 even became the church head of the Assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin. For “Baryn Morozova”, such a fact was absolutely not imagined. However, the Abramovichi did everything contrary to family traditions - as Maria Fedorovna understood them, who devoted her whole life to family business and raising children as future managers and entrepreneurs.

After the death of her husband, Varvara Alekseevna preferred to rotate more in the top of the world and indulge in the little pleasures of life. Memoirist merchant Nikolai Varentsov recalled: “The young beautiful millionaire Varvara Alekseevna Morozova was one of the advanced free-thinking ladies of the Moscow merchant circle.She kept her enormous business in her hands tightly, managing them through the remaining old experienced employees and newly invited managers.

” She did not make secrets from her personal life: as soon as her sons grew up, the whole of Moscow found out that the first merchant of the first -relief consists in a civil marriage with the head of the newspaper Russian Vedomosti Professor Vasily Sobolevsky and, in addition to the three sons from her first marriage, gave birth to a son and a daughter from Sobolevsky.

Vasily Sobolevsky. Photo: All-Photo. And the sons received an excellent home education - including by the artistic part, by the way, for a long time their drawing teacher was Konstantin Korovin himself. Is it worth it after that to be surprised that, having matured, they will try their best to get out of the merchant class. Therefore, Arseny married a little -known actress, Ivan - the choinist from the restaurant "Yar", which everyone called Dossey.

The senior Mikhail approached the marriage more reasonably. His chosen one was the summer beauty Margarita Kirillovna Mamontov, or just Margosha, as her relatives affectionately called. She had a good merchant genealogy, but was not rich: her father, Kirill Nikolayevich Mamontov, a relative of Peter Tretyakov and the cousin of Savva Mamontov, had a basin store on Basmannaya.

But his genuine passion was a card game. Once, after a particularly large loss, he shot himself, leaving his wife with two small daughters without a penny. Thank God, relatives helped, and soon the widow of Margarita Ottovna opened the fashion atelier on Bolshaya Nikitskaya, where many wealthy merchants of the hearth -relief ordered outfits. They lived, in a word, economically, but quite worthy.

Margarita Kirillovna Mamontova. Photo: The public treasure Margarita Kirillovna loved her husband, although twelve years of marriage were not at all rainbow. The mental imbalance of Mikhail Abramovich, who got him from his father, led him to constant throwing and the search for new sensations. After graduating from the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University, he published a monograph on Karl the Fifth, and then decided to retrained into art critics.

He wrote an erotic novel, which, on his happiness, was banned for licentiousness. Of course, behind his back they frozen chilly-they say, no matter how the Barin was amused, but at the same time he was tirelessly sang in the face in art circles-because of his money, which the millionaire generously spent on friends and drinking companions. In the end, they began to laugh openly at him.

So, in the Maly Theater there was a play by Prince Alexandra Sumbatov-Yuzhin “Gentleman”, in which, under the name of the boasted merchant Larion Rydlov, the recognizable image of Morozov was bred: “I feel extensive plans.” I tried myself - and what happened? I can be a critic, a musician, an artist, an actor, and a journalist. Because I am a Russian nugget, but softened by civilization!

The Morozovs were angry, which only added the popularity of the performance. By the way, all attempts to put this play in Tver, that is, where the Morozov factory was, ended in failure. Morozov agents bought tickets in advance, and performances could not take place due to the failure to appear of the audience. However, all the Morozov brothers were famous for their eager characters: Ivan and Michael were often boiled in restaurants together, sometimes getting drunk to white fever.

The youngest Arseny even became a fan of strange esoteric teachings, under the influence of which he once - on a dispute with friends! Blood infection occurred, and the millionaire died at the age of 35. He left a bizarre palace in the Moorish style on his memory as a keepsake, which is still attracting the attention of all guests of the capital today: where is such a miracle where?!

It took the time that the Morozov brothers find a worthy use of their money and their boiling energy. All of them became collectors of painting, buying up the works of French impressionists. For example, Ivan Morozov came to Paris, sat down in a deep chair and took a parade of new art passing before his eyes. The Parisian dealers called him “Russians who are not trading”-and not as admiration, but as an answer to the question of the same field of Cezanne, to which Ivan Abramovich simply began to order paintings:-Draw me, Monsieur, they did not like something in the blue and green Russian artists-it was not for nothing that their teachers considered all Russian art deeply secondary.

When it became known that the “Baryna Morozov” was in earnestly offended by the portrait of Serov, Mikhail and Ivan together approved the decision of Varvara Alekseevna to invite the artist and order him some portrait. Photo: The State Tretyakov Gallery today is known to the whole world-Serov’s ingenious brush wrote a four-year-old boy so vividly, so vividly conveyed his emotions, irrepressible curiosity and children's immediacy that it seems that Mika was about to break from a heavy grandfather’s chair and run to play.

But at the same time, in the enormous dark eyes of the child, both non -childish seriousness and the ardent determination are read. This story made a very laugh of Serov. " Later, Serov wrote portraits and other children of Morozov - the older brother of Yuri and the younger sister of Marusi, but they did not enjoy such a frantic popularity with the public. By the way, Valentin Serov, who was already a real celebrity, did not accept all orders.

But for frost Serov, he was always ready to make an exception, although it cannot be said that the family of millionaires caused him tides of gentle feelings. It was interesting to write Morozovs, this attracted the artist. Having greeted, I asked what he was writing now. It's funny that they are satisfied, ”he said, hitting the word. I made a surprised face, for I was puzzled by this phrase.

Photo: The State Tretyakov Gallery really, only having seen a few time after this famous portrait of the Tretyakov Gallery, which is one of the most poisonous social satire in painting in the history of Russian art, I understood its fleeting replica. ” The portrait is really stunning: the massive Globa man himself said about Morozov: “He, as if they were shot from the king-gun only now!

The playwright Sergey Savvich Mamontov later wrote: "Serov reacted to Morozov kinder than Prince Sumbatov: he retained him a bright mind, emphasizing only the jerky of this pretty person."