Varvara Alekseevna Morozova

V.A. Morozova by K. Makovsky (1884)

Varvara Alekseevna Morozova (1848-1917) was a Russian industrialist. She was the daughter of Aleksey Khludov and married to and Vasily Mikhailovich Sobolevsky. She was the acting president of the from 1882. She was also the perhaps most famed philanthropist in Moscow and awarded with an Imperial medal for her charitable work, known particularly as the patron of the Moscow University.

Family[]

With Abram Morozov she had three sons:

• (1870-1903), eldest son
• Ivan Morozov (1871–1921), second son was a Russian businessman and from 1907 to 1914 a major collector of avant-garde French art.
• Arseny Abramovich Morozov (1874-1908), youngest son

References[]

• Варвара Алексеевна Морозова: На благо просвещения Москвы / Библиотека-читальня им. И. С. Тургенева. Сост., вступ. ст., подготов. текстов, примеч. Н. А. Круглянской. Текст Н. А. Круглянской и В. Н. Асеева. — М.: Русский путь, 2008. В 2-х тт.

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