European Tour of Alexei Vikulovich Morozov (Europe through the Eyes of a Russian Merchant)

The article is devoted to the first foreign travel of the famous Moscow collector A.V. Morozov. In 1919, his collection of porcelain formed the basis for a museum (la-ter the State Museum of Ceramics). As Morozov’s archive was mostly destroyed in 1918, almost no documentary materials on his life have been preserved until today. That makes the scarce sources of his personal origin, those telling about the collector’s life, even more valuable. Among the documents, there is his notebook with the travel notes that A.V. Morozov was keeping during his travel to Europe in 1878. The article is the first complete reference to this historical source, which help expand our understanding of Morozov’s personal life and hobbies (theater, music, reading of history books). Morozov appears to be a perceptive observer of habits and national peculiarities, he was happy to become familiar with everything that Europe would offer to an inexperienced tourist: ballooning, visiting museums and theaters. On the pages of this diary, we can see Europe through the eyes of a man who had got a romanticized view of it, learnt from historical novels and the general course of history, and who, fortunately, was not disappointed by this journey.

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1. Morozov A.V. Katalog moego sobraniya russkikh gravirovannykh i litografi rovannykh portretov [The Catalog of my Collection of Russian Engraved and Lithographed Portraits]. Moscow, Tovarishchestvo Skoropechatni A.A. Levenson Publ., 1912—1913, vol. 1—4.

2. Linkov A.P., Sakovich A.G. Alexei Vikulovich Morozov, Era Rumyantsevskogo muzeya. Gravyurnyi kabinet. Iz istorii formirovaniya sobraniya GMII im. A.S. Pushkina [The Era of the Rumyantsev Museum. The Gravure Cabinet. From the History of the Collection Formation of the Pushkin Museum]. Moscow, Krasnaya Ploshchad’ Publ., 2010, 348 p.

3. Mozzhukhina T.A. Edinstvennyi v Rossii Gosudarstvennyi muzei keramiki v Kuskove: farfor, keramika, steklo [The Only Russian State Museum of Ceramics in Kuskovo: Porcelain, Ceramics, Glass]. Moscow, Tritona Publ., 2012, 47 p.

4. Morozovy i Moskva: trudy Yubil. nauch.-prakt. konf. “Morozovskie chteniya”, Moskva, 26—27 dek. 1997 g. [Morozovs and Moscow: Proc. of the Anniv. Sci.-Prac. Conf. “The Morozov Readings”, Moscow, 1997, December, 26—27]. Moscow, Bogorodskii Pechatnik Publ., 1988, 262 p.

5. Trudy Pervoi nauchno-prakticheskoi konferentsii “Morozovy i ikh rol’ v istorii Rossii” (“Morozovskie chteniya”), Noginsk (Bogorodsk), 16—18 noyab. 1995 g. [Proc. of the First Sci.- Prac. Conf. “The Morozovs and their Role in the History of Russia” (“The Morozov Readings”), Noginsk (Bogorodsk), 1995, November, 16—18]. Noginsk, Bogorodskii Pechatnik Publ., 1996, 215 p.

6. Filatkina N.A. Dinastiya Morozovykh: litsa i sud’by [The Morozov Dynasty: Faces and Fates]. Moscow, TONChU Publ., 2011, 582 p.

7. Morozova M.K. Moi vospominaniya [My Memoirs], Nashe nasledie [Our Heritage], 1991, no. 6, pp. 89—109.

8. Gomberg-Verzhbinskaya E.P., Podkopaeva Yu.I. (eds). Vrubel’. Perepiska: Vospominaniya o khudozhnike [Vrubel. The Correspondence. The Memoirs of the Artist]. Leningrad, Moscow, Iskusstvo Publ., 1963, 362 p.

9. Morozov A.V. The NoteBook, Tsentral’nyi moskovskii arkhiv-muzei lichnykh sobranii (TsMAMLS) [Central Moscow Archive-Museum of Personal Collections], coll. L-284, aids 1, item 6, 55 p.

10. Filatkina N.A. Vospominaniya A.V. Morozova [Memoirs of A.V. Morozov], Staroobryadchestvo v Rossii (XVII—XX vv.) [The Old Belief in Russia (17th—20th Centuries)]. Moscow, Yazyki Slavyanskikh Kul’tur Publ., 2004, issue 3, pp. 542—553.