Grigory Morozov

Grigory Iosifovich Morozov (; 10 August 1921 – 10 December 2001) was a Soviet and Russian jurist and scholar of international law. He was regarded in Russian legal scholarship as a leading specialist on the law of international organisations and the United Nations, held the degree of Doctor of Juridical Sciences, served as a professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and as a chief research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), and was an Honoured Scientist of Russia and honorary president of the World Federation of United Nations Associations.

He is also known as the first husband of Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin, and the father of the Moscow cardiologist Joseph Alliluyev.

Early life and education Morozov was born in Moscow on 10 August 1921. According to a biographical note in the Jewish Memorial virtual necropolis, his father, Iosif Grigorievich Morozov, worked in commerce before and after the Russian Revolution and later ran a private pharmacy in Moscow; his mother was Revekka Markovna Morozova.

With the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, Morozov was conscripted into the Red Army, sent to the front and seriously wounded. After a long period in military hospitals he was discharged from active service.

A biographical entry on the Jewish Memorial site and an obituary in World Economy and International Relations describe him as among the first Soviet jurists to argue that international organisations should be studied as a distinct and complex object of international legal regulation rather than merely as instruments of state policy.

Personal life In 1944 Morozov married Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin. Their son Iosif (Joseph) Alliluyev was born the following year. The marriage ended in divorce in 1948, and their son was later adopted by Alliluyeva's second husband.

Memoirs and biographical articles describe the family's situation as politically sensitive in the late Stalin years and note that Morozov's connection to Stalin's family, along with his father's arrest, complicated his early career.

Death Morozov died in Moscow on 10 December 2001 at the age of 80. He is buried at Vostryakovskoye Cemetery in Moscow, alongside his parents.