Stasov

• the architect Vasily Petrovich Stasov,
• * His daughter 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, Dmitry Vasilievich Stasov, was a notable advocate who took part in the foundation of the Russian Music Society.
• ** Dmitry'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.
• * His son Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov, was probably the most respected Russian critic during his lifetime.