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Morozova

also: Морозова

A woman (given name not specified in the source) whose private initiative to collect famine-relief donations was refused by the responsible minister in autumn 1891, on the grounds that only diocesan church authorities and the Red Cross Society (institution:red-cross-society) were permitted to collect and administer such donations; likely a member of the prominent Morozov merchant family, several of whose women were active in Moscow philanthropy, but the letter gives no further identifying detail. Distinct from the fictional Morozov-surnamed characters elsewhere in the corpus (e.g.,), none of whom are historical figures.

Reading notes

To A. S. Suvorin, 13 October 1891. Moscow. §12 The minister refused Morozova, declaring to her categorically that only the diocesan authorities and the Red Cross may collect and administer donations
An otherwise unidentified Morozova whose private initiative to organize famine-relief donations was blocked by ministerial order restricting collection and disbursement of charitable funds to the church's diocesan authorities and the Red Cross Society (institution:red-cross-society) -- a small but pointed illustration, set right after the Sbornik negotiations, of how much narrower the state's tolerance was for private philanthropy than for a literary fundraising collection routed through established newspapers.
To N. M. Lintvareva, 25 October 1891. Moscow. §3 Morozova went to see the minister, and he categorically forbade private initiative
Morozova, a woman whose private initiative to organize famine-relief donations was blocked by ministerial order restricting collection and disbursement of charitable funds to diocesan church authorities and the Red Cross Society (institution:red-cross-society) -- the same episode reported, with the minister's ruling given in fuller direct-quotation form, twelve days earlier in Chekhov's letter to Suvorin (\S12: "declaring to her categorically that only the diocesan authorities and the Red Cross may collect and administer donations"); here condensed to a single clause for a more intimate correspondent.
To A. S. Suvorin, 11 December 1891. Moscow. §5 the Moscow philanthropist Morozova's
Varvara Alekseyevna Morozova, a Moscow philanthropist and patron of famine relief in 1891-92, of the prominent Morozov merchant family; the same Morozova whose refused fundraising initiative Chekhov reports to Suvorin in and. Here Chekhov visits her in person and finds her genuinely stung by Suvorin's satire at her expense (see the note on "Akaky of Moscow" below).
To A. S. Suvorin, 19 December 1891. Moscow. §5 There's another Morozova, whom I've heard of from reliable sources, but about her I'll tell you when we meet.
The unnamed Morozova whose private famine-relief fundraising initiative was refused by the responsible minister in autumn 1891, first reported to Suvorin in (\S12) and again, in briefer form, to Natalya Lintvaryova in (\S3). Chekhov here signals he knows more about her situation than he's putting in writing, deferring the fuller account to their next meeting -- consistent with the letter's opening joke about mail being read by the wrong person.