1905 Suicide of Savva Morozov

110 years ago, on May 26, 1905, one of the richest people in Russia, a textile manufacturer and philanthropist, Savva Timofeevich Morozov, shot himself in Cannes. He was also a good scientist-chemist, a specialist in dyes. Among other things, Morozov sponsored the Art Theater and the Bolshevik Party, as well as the Mensheviks and the Cadets.

After Bloody Sunday, he wrote a note “On the Causes of the Strike Movement”, where he argued the need for freedom of speech, press, assembly and association, universal equality, inviolability of the person and home, compulsory schooling, public control over the state budget and the legalization of strikes. However, the note was not given a move, since the board of the Nikolskaya manufactory did not support it.

Morozov fell into a depression. Doctors stated that he had "a severe general nervous disorder, expressed either in excessive excitement, anxiety, insomnia, or in a depressed state, attacks of melancholy, and so on." On their recommendation, Morozov went to the south of France for treatment. He left a note: "I ask you not to blame anyone for my death."