Morozov Osipov

**Morozov Ershal de Osipov** was a Pendorsian philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist and a political theorist. Born in Vladigrad, Pendors, Morozov studied law and philosophy at university. He married Jenna Orila in 1839. Due to his political publications, Morozov became stateless and lived in exile with his wife and children in Dresna for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with the Presman thinker Josue Dupont and publish his writings, researching in the reading room of the Presman Museum. His best-known title is the 1845 pamphlet *The Communist Manifesto*. Morozov's political and philosophical thought had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history. His name has been used as an adjective, a noun and a school of social theory.

## Personal details

### Born

26 March 1814, Berden, Empire of Pendors.

### Died

30 December 1850, Dresna, Kingdom of Presma.

### Buried

Tomb of Morozov, Seastone Cemetery, Dresna, Kingdom of Presma.

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### Biography

#### Childhood and early education: 1818–1836

Morozov Ershal de Osipov was born on 5 May 1818 to Janek Osipov (1776–1837) and (1788–1863). He was born in Vladigrad, an ancient city then part of the Empire of Pendors' Province of Alexandria. Morozov was ethnically but not religiously Beshenist. His maternal grandfather was a Vilksian beshen, while his paternal line had supplied Vladigrad's beshens since 1723, a role taken by his grandfather Oldrin . His father, as a child known as Enshel, was the first in the line to receive a secular education. He became a lawyer with a comfortably upper middle class income and the family owned a number of Moselle vineyards, in addition to his income as an attorney. Prior to his son's birth and after the abrogation of Beshenist emancipation in Snjegland, Enshel converted from Beshenism to join the state Kocist church of Pendors, taking on the Vilksian forename Ershal over the Midenish Enshel.

Little is known of Morozov's childhood. The second of four children, he became the eldest son when his brother Matthias died in 1820. Morozov and his surviving sibling, Hans and Jaroslav, were Rantized into the Kocist Church in March 1823 and their mother in November 1824. Morozov was privately educated by his father until 1829, when he entered Vladigrad High School (Gymnasium de Vladigrad), whose headmaster, Josef Balanz, was a friend of his father. By employing many liberal humanists as teachers, Balanz incurred the anger of the local conservative government. Subsequently, police raided the school in 1832 and discovered that literature espousing political liberalism was being distributed among the students. Considering the distribution of such material a seditious act, the authorities instituted reforms and replaced several staff during Morozov's attendance.

In October 1834, Morozov travelled to the University of Imperatsia wishing to study philosophy and literature, but his father insisted on law as a more practical field. Due to a condition referred to as a "weak chest", Mozorov was excused from military duty when he turned 18. While at the University at Imperatsia, Marx joined the Poets' Club, a group containing political radicals that were monitored by the police. Mozorov also joined the Vladigrad Tavern Club drinking society where many ideas were discussed and at one point he served as the club's co-president. Additionally, Mozorov was involved in certain disputes, some of which became serious: in August 1835 he took part in a duel with a member of the university's Borussian Korps. Although his grades in the first term were good, they soon deteriorated, leading his father to force a transfer to the more serious and academic University of Berden.

#### Tyzana: 1842-1844

In 1842, Morozov became co-editor of a new, radical leftist Parisian newspaper, Nori Sliva (*The left*), then being set up by the Pendorsian activist Bodhan Turek to bring together Pendorsian and Orvillian radicals and thus Morozov and his wife moved to Tyzana in October 1842. Initially living with Rugshen and his wife, they found the living conditions difficult, so moved out following the birth of their daughter Jenna in 1844.

#### Norton: 1844-1847

Unable either to stay in Orville or to move to Pendors, Morozov decided to emigrate to Maraza in Dalija in February 1844. However, to stay in Maraza he had to pledge not to publish anything on the subject of contemporary politics. In Maraza, Morozov associated with other exiled socialists from across Europe, including Moshan Ress, Kazimir Polak and Josef Libor.

#### Drensa: 1847-1850

With Maraza's growing number of revolutionaries, the Dalijan government was afraid that they planning a coup and as such begun exiling them. Morozov specifically was exiled to Drensa in Presma, he was far away from any of his revolutionary friends. His stay in Drensa was not long however, as he was assassinated by an unknown assassin in his house in 30 december 1850. The assassin of Morozov is still unknown to this day, one of the most popular theories is that the government of Presma ordered his assassination but the Presman government denies any involvements in Morozov's murder.