Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov (also Stassov; Russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Ста́сов; 14 January [O.S. 2 January] 1824 – 23 October [O.S. 10 October] 1906),[1] was a Russian critic of music and art. Born into a wealthy, noble family, Stasov became a prominent figure in mid-19th-century Russian culture.[2] He discovered a large number of its greatest talents, inspired many of their works and fought their battles in numerous articles and letters to the press. As such, he carried on a lifelong debate with Russian novelist and playwright Ivan Turgenev, who considered Stasov "our great all-Russian critic."[3] He wanted Russian art to liberate itself from what he saw as Europe's hold. By copying the west, he felt, Russian artists could be, at best, second-rate. However, by borrowing from their own native traditions, they might create a truly national art that could match Europe's with its high artistic standards and originality. By "national" Stasov meant an art that would not only portray people's lives but also be meaningful to them and show them how to live.[4]
home of the influential critic VladimirStasov, who followed both of their careers with interest. According to Stasov's testimony, in 1868, Hartmann gave...
seriously, and played on the "rubbish" connection in letters to VladimirStasov and to Stasov's family, routinely signing his name Musoryanin, roughly "garbage-dweller"...
for his painting Job and His Brothers. He met the influential critic VladimirStasov and painted a portrait of Vera Shevtsova, his own future wife. Early...
considered academicism a threat to musical imagination. Along with critic VladimirStasov, who supported The Five, Balakirev attacked relentlessly both the Saint...
influence as before. In conjunction with critic and fellow nationalist VladimirStasov, in the late 1850s and early 1860s, Balakirev brought together the...
and scenes of village life. Recalling his childhood in a letter to VladimirStasov, Vasnetsov remarked that he "had lived with peasant children and liked...
Duke Vasily Petrovich Stasov (Russian: Васи́лий Петро́вич Ста́сов; 4 August 1769 – 5 September 1848) was a famous Russian architect, born into a wealthy...
Armenian and Russian society such as Martiros Saryan, Ilya Repin, and VladimirStasov. Vardges Sureniants was born in Akhaltsikhe, Russian Empire in modern-day...
where the artist moved in September 1882. Repin wrote to art critic VladimirStasov in a letter dated 2 January 1881: ... I will move to St. Petersburg...
first brought to the composer's attention by his friend the critic VladimirStasov. It concerns the rebellion of Prince Ivan Khovansky, the Old Believers...
amazing dramas that will never be erased from memory." Art critic VladimirStasov considered Ge's painting to be one of the best works in the 1st Travelling...
landscape "is the best, and it is truly beautiful," and art critic VladimirStasov noted that it is "probably the best and most original painting by Mr...
transferred to the State Tretyakov Gallery. According to art critic VladimirStasov, "A Quiet Monastery" is Levitan's best painting "in the beauty and...
by Vasily Stasov (builder of neoclassical Trinity Cathedral, St. Petersburg, father of critic VladimirStasov). The following year, Stasov completed the...
Balakirev, who provided him the program, which had a long history. Critic VladimirStasov had written it and sent it to Balakirev in 1868 hoping the latter would...
respect of VladimirStasov who believed that art shaped people's outlook and the way in which they viewed their own political situation. Stasov encouraged...
Rubinstein lobbied aristocrats to form the Russian Musical Society, critic VladimirStasov and an 18-year-old pianist, Mily Balakirev, met and agreed upon a nationalist...
of the 1860s. He was the brother of the critic VladimirStasov and the activist Nadezhda Stasova. Stasov was father of the Bolshevik revolutionary Elena...
new direction was Alexander Serov. He was then joined by his friend VladimirStasov, who became the theorist of this cultural trend; it was developed further...
best painting in our school recently; maybe I am mistaken". Critic VladimirStasov noted that a "sorrowful note sensibly resounds in the general physiological...
first performed in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1890. Alexander Borodin VladimirStasov Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Anatoly Lyadov Alexander Glazunov After briefly...
Vereshchagin, and Andrei Ryabushkin. The work of the critic and democrat VladimirStasov was important for the development of Peredvizhniki's art. Pavel Mikhailovich...
Чёрнобога, Slavlenye Chornoboga) in a list of his compositions given to VladimirStasov. In 1930, Pavel Lamm, in his edition of Mussorgsky's complete works...
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