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	Stasov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stasov is a quintessential family of Russian intelligentsia.
		Stasov's first important commissions in the capital were the Saviour and the Trinity cathedrals for the regiments of the imperial guards.
		This ponderous Empire-style edifice, erected on the spot of the first church of Kievan Rus' and containing the relics of Saint Vladimir, was destroyed by the Bolsheviks in the 1930s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vladimir_Stasov (463 words)

	Russian Visual Arts Project
		Vladimir Stasov's review of the Academy exhibition of 1863 which opened in September was published as late as February 1864: its publication was delayed by censorship which removed all information about the Revolt of the Fourteen from the text.
		In this essay Stasov also clearly displayed his understanding of his role as an art critic, ridiculing reviewers who used the exhibition as a pretext to demonstrate their eloquence and reveal their feelings and naïve speculations about art.
		Stasov instead endeavours to give a critical analysis of the current state of Russian art, the policy of the Academy of encouraging artists by granting them professorships, and the success of contemporary art in addressing itself to the Russian people.
	hri.shef.ac.uk /rva/texts/stasov/stas04/stas04intro.html (256 words)

	Skadi Forum - 'False Art and False Artists' by Stasov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vladimir Stasov has to be my favorite and most profound mentor on the question of art and aesthetics.
		Stasov's beliefs in the democratic ideals of the 1860s had not changed in 1905 and this essay sums up the essence of his views on art.
		For Stasov, such claims must have sounded like a blasphemy, since it was precisely this close relationship between art and the people that he had been tirelessly advocating for the past forty years, whilst simultaneously trying to destroy the notion of art as the pursuit of beauty.
	forum.skadi.net /printthread.php?t=13855 (2100 words)

	Russian Visual Arts Project - Texts
		Son of Vasilii Petrovich Stasov, a major neo-classical architect whose works include the Barracks of the Pavlovskii regiment on the Field of Mars, the Trinity Cathedral of the Izmailovskii regiment and the Spaso-Preobrazhenskii Cathedral in St Petersburg.
		Vladimir Stasov graduated from the School of Jurisprudence in 1843 and worked in the Senate and the Ministry of Justice.
		Stasov was a passionate supporter of the Association of the Itinerant Art Exhibitions and champion of realism and nationality in art.
	hri.shef.ac.uk /rva/texts/stasov/stasovbib.html (301 words)

	Walt Disney Concert Hall - Piece Detail
		The manuscript, bearing a dedication to Stasov, was ready for publication in July of 1874.
		Others, most famously Vladimir Horowitz in his recordings and public performances during the middle of the last century, have sought to capture the orchestral incarnation of Pictures on the piano - if you will, retranslating Ravel's edition to its original language.
		Stasov's title for this depiction of a contrast in personalities "One Rich, the Other Poor" was adopted for most early published editions.
	wdch.laphil.com /about/piece_detail.cfm?id=981 (1156 words)

	Eurozine - article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Vladimir Odoyevsky celebrated the work as the birth of Russian opera and Russian music, the beginning of a new era in cultural history (14).
		Vladimir Odoyevsky was the only one who, as early as 1863, had come to see Wagner as a model both for the development of a national Russian school and for the struggle against Moscow's Italianised opera establishment (26).
		Stasov was all too aware that Russian opera had to tackle these topics if it was to occupy a leading place in the context of European cultures.
	www.eurozine.com /article/2004-09-14-redepenning-en.html (5514 words)

	The Khovansky Affair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Khovansky Affair ( Ð¥Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½ÑÐ¸Ð½Ð° in Russian, Khovanshchina in transliteration) is an opera in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky to a Russian libretto by Vladimir Stasov, based on a historical incident.
		It received its premiere on 21 February 1886 in Saint Petersburg.
		Like Mussorgsky's earlier Boris Godunov, The Khovansky Affair deals with an episode in Russian history, first brought to the composer's attention by his friend Vladimir Stasov.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khovanshchina (289 words)

	Russian Life: Calendar.(Calendar)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A poet, translator, playright, dramatist, literary critic and editor, Marshak was born in Voronezh and began writing poetry at a very early age.
		When he was just 15, Marshak's family moved to Petersburg, where he came into contact with Vladimir Stasov and, through him, Fyodor Shalyapin and Maxim Gorky; who all took an active interest in his future.
		Stasov arranged for Marshak, the son of a Jew from the Pale of Settlement, to be enrolled in a gymnasium, an exceptional accomplishment at that time.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:94773496&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (157 words)

	Miroslav Gospel - Facts
		Since the Miroslav Gospels date from the very beginning of state development and are distinguished by a wealth of painted ornamentation, linguistic complexity and a variety of models, it is not surprising that it aroused scholarly interest as early as the 19th century.
		It is generally assumed that the first to draw the attention of international Slavic scholarsship to the Miroslav Gospels was Russian scholar Vladimir Stasov in his important book: Ruski naslov (St. Petersburg 1887, plates XIV and XV).
		After Vladimir Stasov, the Gospel miniatures attracted the attention of a great connoisseur of old Russian art, Fiodor Ivanovich Buslayev, who established the general characteristics of Serbian illumination.
	solair.eunet.yu /~ecolibri/facts.html (1682 words)

	The 19th Century - Page 14 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This also put him in opposition to Vladimir Stasov, the Russian critic, who was squarely in the other camp.
		Vladimir Stasov was the Russian critic who coined the term "The Mighty Handful" to describe the group of composers that included Balakirev, Borodin, Cui, Mussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakov.
		Stasov encouraged the group to seek Russian subjects, one outcome of which was Borodin's Prince Igor, for which Stasov did the original scenario.
	home.prcn.org /pauld/opera/19cent14.htm (1049 words)

	New Page 0 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1874, he made his gallery of paintings open to the public and the gallery has developed to become what is now known as the largest collection of Russian art, the State Tretyakov Gallery.
		Stasov was an art critic who supported the Peredvizhniki.
		He was interested in developing the concept of national art, and saw that reflected in the works of the Peredvizniki.
	www.bol.ucla.edu /~wew/others.htm (155 words)

	Guardian \| The gang of five
		Their aim was to create a new authentically Russian music, a style that rejected the heavily Germanic academicism that then prevailed at the St Petersburg Conservatory, and instead looked back to the music of Glinka and beyond him to their own country's folk music roots to establish a tradition.
		After that, the history of Russian music in the last third of the 19th century could be handily parcelled up: there was the Five on the one side, and on the other the far more "Europeanised" Tchaikovsky who, though he shared some of the same ideals, was not someone ever inclined to join a group.
		The result is a curious mixture - by turns mystical and realistic, and ending with the utopian vision of the city of Kitezh itself, made invisible by a golden mist, where those killed by the Tartars are sheltered and where Fevroniya and her husband Vsevolod will reign for eternity.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5128858-110760,00.html (644 words)

	Sweeping out the cobwebs by Patrick J. Smith
		Over the years, Stasov’s voluminous writings, argumentative and authoritative, hammered home his ideas about the Handful: its centrality, and its importance as a counterweight to the government and to Western musical influences.
		In the process, Stasov trampled the lives and careers of those with whom he disagreed, notably the composer Alexander Serov, whose approval of Wagner’s music put him outside the pale.
		We see these nineteenth-century Russian composers as individuals, with their own ideas, virtues, and failings, and we are able to judge their musical society as made up of disparate elements—variously coalescing and disputing—rather than blocs.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/21/sum03/smith.htm (2003 words)

	Guardian \| Hell on Earth
		In the audience at his opening concert was Vladimir Stasov, later Russia's most influential music critic.
		Stasov was unusual in not being affected by Liszt's charisma, but his remark is a startling indication that Liszt was already publicly identified with Dante before his works inspired by the poet had entered the repertory.
		Whether Liszt's supposed resemblance to Dante was integral to his near-obsession with the latter is a matter of conjecture.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5097605-110432,00.html (1524 words)

	ville du mois: Saint-Petersburg - Music & Opera
		Vladimir Odoyevsky celebrated the work as the birth of Russian opera and Russian music, the beginning of a new era in cultural history.
		The circle's intellectual spearhead, its mastermind and ideologue, was Vladimir Stasov.
		For Stasov and the “Mighty Handful”, the creation of a conservatory represented an anachronism and an obstacle to the development of a national culture.
	www.music-opera.com /site_english/ville_stpetersburg_e.htm (4605 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Piece Detail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		According to Stasov's scenario, as amplified slightly by both Balakirev and Tchaikovsky, the first movement depicts Manfred wandering in the Alps, tormented by a guilty past.
		He enters in the middle of this "quiet, idyllic adagio," as Stasov described the movement, dividing it neatly into a two-part form of exposition and recapitulation.
		The Finale, as Stasov imagined it, would be "a wild, unrestrained Allegro," and that pretty much is what Tchai-kovsky delivered.
	www.laphil.org /resources/piece_detail.cfm?id=915 (1524 words)

	the five (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		They influenced and taught many of the great Russian composers who were to follow, including Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich.
		The label Mightly Handful ( 'moguchaya kuchka ' in Russian) was first applied to the group in 1867 by the critic Vladimir Stasov.
		The alternate name The Five is not and was never intended to be a literal translation of this term.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /The_Five.html (207 words)

	«ALMOST UNKNOWN MARSHAK» - MATVEI GEIZER
		Vladimir Vasilyevich Stasov, an honorary member of the Petersburg Academy of sciences, also played a significant role in his life.
		Stasov got so much enchanted by a 15-year-old Marshak that he ordered to invite a photographer to commemorate that day.
		Stasov considered an artist-Jew should create in a national spirit, "There is no art without nationality...
	www.jewukr.org /observer/jo24_43/p1201_e.html (1136 words)

	Hunters at Rest by Vasily Perov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		According to Vladimir Stasov, in Perov's works of the latter half of the 19th-century Russian art could be seen "in all the grandeur of its true role: it drew life, it explained life, it pronounced its verdict on the phenomenon of life."
		It is this that attracted Vladimir Stasov, who said that "here we have a whole gallery of Russian people living peacefully in all parts of Russia."
		The role of the landscape and Russian nature is so great and the interaction of the landscape with human figures is so well captured that we can speak of Perov as a landscape painter and also as one of the founders of the realistic landscape school.
	center.rusmuseum.ru /inetbook/perov_paint_eng.html (675 words)

	Decca Music Group - Composers
		When Moussorgsky failed to complete a Symphony in D, begun in 1861, Balakirev and Vladimir Stasov, an influential critic, and friend of the "Five", regretfully agreed that "Moussorgsky is almost an idiot", which, of course, was certainly not the case.
		In 1874 he also composed the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition, but Stasov was unable to persuade him to join him on a visit to Weimar to see Liszt, who had been greatly impressed by Moussorgsky's cycle of piano pieces, The Nursery.
		In 1878 alcoholism took increasing hold of him, and at the suggestion of Stasov, who hoped it might cure him, he changed government departments; but in 1880 he was finally forced to leave the civil service altogether.
	www.deccaclassics.com /music/composers/mussorgsky.html (774 words)

	Program Notes
		The critic Vladimir Stasov organized a posthumous exhibition of Hartmann's drawings, paintings, and architectural sketches in Saint Petersburg in the spring of 1874, and by June 22 Mussorgsky, having worked at high intensity and speed, completed his tribute to his friend.
		Stasov tells us that the piece represents a medieval castle with a troubadour standing before it.
		The gates were never built, and Mussorgsky's majestic vision seems quite removed from Hartmann's plan for a structure decorated with tinted brick, with the imperial eagle on top and, to one side, a three-story belfry with a cupola in the shape of a Slavic helmet.
	www.sfsymphony.org /templates/router.asp?callid=2049&nodeid=2992 (1065 words)

	The Moguchaya Kuchka: Fact, Myth and Legend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		If one would merely study it, they would find that this myth was created and supported by Vladimir Stasov.
		After Musorgsky’s death in 1881, Stasov attempted to reshape the memory of Musorgsky in a biography in accordance with his own twisted sense of reality.
		Stasov, in the end, had done more harm to musical history than any good he might have done by trying to preserve the Kuchka’s memory and ideals.
	www.artists-in-residence.com /paulcannon/writings/kuchka.html (2738 words)

	The Pride of Russian Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Of all living beings," Vladimir Odoevsky wrote in 1831, "virtually the only one I saw was Olenin — with a huge greatcoat over his shoulders, port-wine in his hands, a cigar between his teeth, 'cholera' on his lips, and yet with calm in his heart...
		The "rough despot", as Stasov called Buturlin, acted in such a way that not a trace remained of the friendly atmosphere of Olenin's time.
		The 1850s with what Stasov described as their "highly promising shift of minds" brought not only a growth in stocks and numbers of users but also an obvious change in the character of readers' interests.
	www.nlr.ru /eng/nlr/history/index4.html (2868 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Often taking part in the selection of pictures were such outstanding painters as Ivan Kramskoi and Ilya Repin, the critic Vladimir Stasov and other Russian cultural figures; this turned Tretyakov's collection into a veritable centre of Russia's artistic life.
		The icon was given the name of Vladimir and was regarded as the guardian of the Vladimir-Suzdal Principality.
		With the rise of the Moscow Principality in the 15th century the icon was moved to Moscow's Kremlin and began to be revered as the palladium of the Russian state.
	sunsite.cs.msu.su /moscow/tretyakov/tret0.html (2335 words)

	Marina Balina, Illinois Wesleyan University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		He describes the life of his Jewish family in provincial Russia, his school years and his miraculous introduction to the world of Russian literature that placed him among such figures of Russia's high culture as Vladimir Stasov, Maxim Gorky, Fedor Chaliapin, and Ilya Repin, among others.
		While recalling his past, the Soviet writer is faced with a difficult task of confirming his belonging to the Soviet literary establishment by conforming his memory of his pre-revolutionary childhood years to the predominant mode of "anti-childhood," first introduced into Russian literature by Maxim Gorky (Wachtel 1990: 131).
		The lack of parental care (his father is alive and a loving and caring character but lacks proper education) was converted into the absence of intellectual guidance.
	aatseel.org /program/aatseel/2004/abstracts/balina.htm (546 words)

	Concert: Ashkenazy conducts final concert of the season in Leicester
		When the Russian architect Victor Hartmann died in 1873, the writer Vladimir Stasov and several other of Hartmann's friends and associates arranged a memorial exhibition of some 400 drawings and paintings by the architect.
		One of the visitors to the gallery was Mussorgsky, a good friend of Stasov, who had long admired Hartmann's work.
		Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts at De Montfort Hall, Leicester (28/11/2005)
	www.philharmonia.co.uk /concerts/ashkenazyconductsfinalconcertoftheseasoninleicester (162 words)

	Abramtsevo, Russian Greenspace, Russian Writers - JRL 8-3-03
		The following year, in a letter to the critic Vladimir Stasov, Repin described his life there: "I have been living with my entire family at the Mamontovs' for more than a month.
		It is still a good place to get a sense of the sources of Russian culture, a place where different influences meet, peasant design sits beside realist 19th-century art, and the artists combined their efforts to build and decorate the little onion-domed church.
		According to Natasha's Dance, Orlando Figes's recent cultural history of Russia, the origins of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes can be traced back to Mamontov's private opera at Abramtsevo and his passion for singing and theatre.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/7275-4.cfm (1058 words)

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