Dmitry Vasilyevich Stasov ( January 20 [ February 1 ] 1828 , St. Petersburg - April 28, 1918 , Petrograd ) - attorney at law and first chairman of the board of attorneys at law for the district St. Petersburg Court of Justice, public figure.
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 V.A. Serov . Portrait of Stasov. 1908. | |
| Date of Birth | January 20 ( February 1 ) 1828 |
| Place of Birth | St. Petersburg , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | April 28, 1918 (90 years) |
| Place of death | Petrograd , RSFSR |
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| Father | Stasov, Vasily Petrovich |
| Mother | Maria Abramovna (nee Suchkova) |
| Spouse | Polixena Stepanovna (nee Kuznetsova) |
| Children | Varvara, Elena |
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Biography
Born into the family of architect Vasily Petrovich Stasov . The family had four sons and a daughter. The elder brother, Vladimir , became Russia's largest art and music critic, one of the founders of the Association of Wanderers and the Mighty Handful of Composers . Another brother, Alexander, was the director of the Caucasus and Mercury Joint-Stock Company, and brother Nikolay served in the Winter Palace. Nadezhda Vasilyevna Stasova was one of the organizers of the women's movement in Russia and the first manager of the Bestuzhevskiy higher women's courses .
In 1847, Dmitry (as his brother Vladimir earlier) graduated from the Imperial School of Law in St. Petersburg. At the end of the school he served as an official of the Gerold of the Governing Senate . In the summer of 1856, Dmitry Vasilyevich participated in the coronation of Alexander II as a herald and was granted a diamond ring with a ruby.
In 1858, Stasov was appointed chief secretary of the Civil Department of the Senate. In 1859 he organized a circle of young lawyers. Made a lot of useful for the preparation of the Judicial reform of Alexander II in 1864.
In September 1861, Stasov left the civil service and engaged in private advocacy. With the introduction of the Judicial Statutes of 1864, he was one of the first to register with attorneys at law . On April 17, 1866, on the official birthday of the attorney at law, Stasov was accepted into its composition, and at the very first election of the first (Petersburg) board of attorneys at law on May 2 of the same year he was elected its chairman. For the last (third) time, the Petersburg Council elected Dmitry Vasilyevich as its chairman in 1911, when he was in his 84th year, and he remained at the head of the Council until 1914.
Stasov acted as a defender in a number of major political processes over the revolutionaries of the People (in the case of Karakozov , etc.)
D. V. Stasov was friendly with many artists, writers and composers. He led the proceedings in 1871 and 1881, acting as a lawyer for P. I. Tchaikovsky and his publisher, P. I. Yurgenson, against the director of the Court Singing Chapel, N. I. Bakhmetev, and the Moscow Chief of Police Alexander A. Kozlov [1] .
An educated amateur musician (he studied piano with A. A. Gerke and A. L. Henselt ), Stasov was a prominent figure in the Russian musical life of the mid-19th century. He was on friendly terms with M. I. Glinka , A. S. Dargomyzhsky , M. A. Balakirev , Ts. A. Cui , M. P. Musorgsky, and other composers. He was one of the leaders of the Concert Society, founded by A. F. Lvov in 1850. In 1859 he became a director of the Russian Musical Society .
The biographer of Stasov, DM. Light, rightly pointed out that the “musical” affairs of Dmitry Vasilyevich “served as the decisive reason for the adoption in 1882 of the law on copyright of musicians and composers with the extension of copyright for 50 years and completely different norms of remuneration”.
On the days of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Judicial Statutes of 1864, on behalf of the estate, he was presented with a gold attorney, the only sign in all of Russia, and formed the capital of his name in support of the legal profession.
Family
The wife of Poliksena Stepanovna ( nee. Kuznetsova; 1839, St. Petersburg - 1918, Petrograd) is a social activist, the author of memories of the women's social movement.
In the 1860s, she was involved in the women's social movement by the sister of her husband, N. V. Stasova , and she belonged to M. V. Trubnikova’s circle, where activists of the struggle for the rights of women in Russia gathered.
Participated in the Society for the delivery of cheap apartments and other benefits to the needy residents of St. Petersburg, in the device of secular Sunday schools (1861–1862), in the organization of higher education for women.
In 1863, she became one of the 36 founders of the Women's Publishing Artel, whose goal was to provide women with intelligent labor.
In 1894, she supported the initiative of N. V. Stasova to create the Children's Help Society, joined her Board, and in 1895 became its chairperson. Under her direct supervision of the society, Shelter and Nursery on Sampsonievsky Avenue , 61 and Shelter for homeless children in Yashimov Lane , 7 (in 1913, both places were located in a specially acquired house near Udelnaya station) were established. Many children in these institutions were kept on her personal funds. The Stasovs had six children. Among them:
- Elena is a Russian revolutionary, leader of the international communist, women's, anti-war and anti-fascist movement, secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) , an employee of the Comintern . Her memories of her father, see [2] .
- Varvara ( in Komarov's marriage , pseudonym Vladimir Karenin) - musicologist, writer, literary historian.
Notes
- ↑ The court and police dignitary confiscated Tchaikovsky’s Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, published by Yurgenson, referring to private resolutions of the Synod of 1816 and 1846. Stasov won both of these cases.
- ↑ Stasov, Elena Dmitrievna
Literature
- Light D. M. D. V. Stasov - lawyer and public figure. Diss. Cand. ist Sciences Saratov. - 1992
- Troitsky N.A. Korifey of the Russian legal profession. - M., 2006
- Keldysh Yu. V. Stasov D. V. // Musical Encyclopedia / ed. Yu. V. Keldysh. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, Soviet Composer, 1981. - Vol. 5.