Margarita Morozova
Margarita Kirillovna Morozova was a prominent Russian philanthropist, patron of arts, publisher, editor and memoirist. She was a cofounder of the Moscowbased Religious and Philosophical Society and the director of the Russian Musical Society. She was the wife of art critic and collector Mikhail Morozov, and a socialite whose portraits were painted by Valentin Serov and Nikolai Bodarevsky, among others.
Margarita Kirillovna Mamontova was born at Pokrovka Street in Moscow, into a wellestablished merchants family. Her father Kirill Nikolayevich inherited a vast fortune but proved incapable of making good use of it. Having lost all of his money and most of the familys property in wild projects and Monte Carlo casinos, he finally shot himself, leaving his wife Margarita Ottovna with two young daughters and without any means. She survived by doing needlework and then organizing dressmaking courses later she launched her own sewing factory.
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