Duke Vasily Petrovich Stasov was a Russian architect, born into a wealthy noble family: his father, Pyotr Fyodorovich Stasov, came from one of the oldest aristocratic families founded in 1387 by the 1
Vasily Stasov in an 1820s portrait by Alexander Varnek
Stasov's Trinity Cathedral, St. Petersburg, represents a high point of Russian Neoclassicism.
Narva Triumphal Arch in Saint Petersburg designed by Stasov
Vladimir Vasilievich Stasov was a Russian critic of music and art.
Portrait by Ilya Repin, 1883
Vladimir Stasov's grave in the cemetery of Alexander Nevsky Lavra