Savva Morozov's mother pushed him out of the family mills, he was found shot in Cannes, and his insurance went to a Bolshevik actress

Savva Timofeyevich Morozov ran the Nikolskaya Manufactory, the family textile company whose 12 enterprises built the town of Orekhovo-Zuevo. His mother chaired its board. He gave 10,000 rubles to start the Moscow Art Theatre and paid money to the illegal newspaper Iskra; Gorky's memoirs put it at 24,000 rubles a year. In 1904 he insured his life for 100,000 rubles and gave the policy, payable to the bearer, to the actress Maria Andreyeva, a Marxist. After the 1905 strikes he wrote a memo asking for democratic freedoms for workers. His mother threatened to remove him from the business, and he withdrew. In April 1905, at his wife's and mother's request, doctors diagnosed a severe nervous disorder and sent him abroad. On 26 May 1905 he was found shot dead in his hotel room in Cannes. A note read "Please don't blame anyone for my death"; it had no date or signature. The police ruled it suicide. His widow said she saw a man running from the window, and relatives blamed the Bolsheviks. Andreyeva collected the 100,000 rubles and is reported to have given 60 percent to the Bolshevik party^†. He was buried in Moscow's Rogozhskoye cemetery. After the October Revolution of 1917 all Morozov enterprises were nationalised. The family's worth had been over 110 million rubles.