Varyingly traced to the Blessed Alexander Peresvět of Radonež (died 1380) and to a certain Vasilej Peresvět Ivanov in early-15th-century Dmitrov (NW of Moscow), the family, in the person of Murat Aleksěevič Peresvětov (died 1640) from Rostov Velikij, entered Swedish service in 1613-14 during the Ingrian War.
Morath was a photographer with the renowned Magnum Agency (founded in 1948 by George Rodger; David Seymour; Robert Capa and Henri Cartier-Bresson, specialising in what became known as humanitarian photography).