Elisei Savvich Morozov (; 1798 – 1868) was the eldest son of

Savva Vasilyevich Morozov Savva Vasilyevich Morozov (; 24 April 1770 – 1860) was an eighteenth-century Russian entrepreneur, who founded the Morozov dynasty. Origins He was born a serf, his father, a fisherman having been sold by Vsevoloshsky along with other serfs, b ...

of the Morozov dynasty. In 1837, he married Evdokiia Nikiforovna. His father developed some wasteland on the right bank of the

Klyazma River The Klyazma (, ''Klyaz'ma'' or ''Kliazma''), a river in the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Ivanovo and Vladimir Oblasts in Russia, forms a left tributary of the Oka.

at a location which became Nikolskoye. In 1837, Elisei established a dye works next door but lost interest in the enterprise after becoming an

Old Believer Old Believers or Old Ritualists (Russian: староверы, ''starovery'' or старообрядцы, ''staroobryadtsy'') is the common term for several religious groups, which maintain the old liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian ...

. As he became more interested in religion, he spent his time writing religious tracts while his wife, Evdokiia, ran the business.

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