House of Stasov

Notable people

• The architect was Duke Vasily Petrovich Stasov,
• * His daughter, Duchess Nadezhda Vasilievna Stasova, was a philanthropist and women's rights activist. She organized week-end schools for workers and daycares for workers’ children. She also helped found the Bestuzhev Courses, which made higher education available to Russian women for the first time.
• * His son, Count Dmitry Vasilievich Stasov, was a notable advocate who took part in the foundation of the Russian Music Society.
• ** Dmitri's daughter, Elena Dmitryevna Stasova, joined the Communist movement in 1898. As a leader of the Bolshevik Party in St. Petersburg she was exiled to Siberia in 1913–16. After the Russian [Revolution of 1917] Stasova was a secretary of the Bolshevik party and from 1921–1926 a Comintern representative to the Communist Party of Germany.
• **Dmitri's daughter, Varvara Komarova-Stasova, was a writer and musicologist, who published under the pen name Vladimir Karenin.
• * His son Duke Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov, was one of the most respected Russian critic during his lifetime.