Vladimir Stasov (1824-1906) was a Russian essay writer, an art and music critic, an art historian, bibliographer, archivist, and a public figure. He was an Honorary Member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1900), a Privy Councillor (1884).
In 1847, he turned to the art-critical activity in the Otechestvennye Zapiski journal. From 1856, he cooperated with the Imperial Public Library. He regularly consulted writers, artists, and composers, collected and published the manuscript heritage of Russian people of art, including letters of M. Glinka, A. Dargomyzhsky, M. Mussorgsky, A. Serov and others.
In 1861-1864, he was the editor of publication Izvestiya Imperatorskogo Arkheologicheskogo Obshchestva (Proceedings of the Imperial Archaeological Society). At the same time, he was a member of the Second Department of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery in 1863-1882.
He devoted numerous articles and monographs to the creative activities of K. Bryullov, V. Vasnetsov, V. Vereshchagin, I. Kramskoi, V. Perov, N. Ge, I. Repin, M. Mussorgsky, A. Borodin, masters of the performing arts (including O. Petrov and A. Rubinstein), as well as to issues of archaeology, history, folkloristics, etc.
The postage stamp provides a fragment of painting Portrait of V.V. Stasov by Ilya Repin (State Russian Museum, 1883).
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