Background
Stasov, Dmitrii was born on February 1, 1828 in St. Petersburg. Brother of the famous music critic Vladimir Stasov. Son of the architect Vasilii Stasov.
Stasov, Dmitrii was born on February 1, 1828 in St. Petersburg. Brother of the famous music critic Vladimir Stasov. Son of the architect Vasilii Stasov.
Educated at the St. Petersburg School of Law, 1847.
Until 1861, worked at the Senate. One of the country’s liberal lawyers at the time of Alexander IPs reforms. One of the organizers of the Law Reform, 1864.
An organizer and director of the Russian Music Society, 1859. Sympathetic to revolutionary ideas. Helped to arrange the meeting between Chernyshevskii and Hertzen in London in 1859.
One of the top lawyers of the 1860s. Defence lawyer in the famous political trials involving Nechaev, Ishutin and others. Also, defence lawyer in the 193 (terrorists) trial, the trial of 17, and that of Kovalskii.
Watched by the secret police because of his sympathies with Russian terrorists. Several short arrests in 1861 and 1879. Involved in the revolutionary activity of his daughter Elena Stasova.
Lenin found refuge in his flat, June-July 1917, after the defeat of the Bolsheviks’ attempted coup, from the police of the Provisional Government. Wrote Muzykal'nye Vospominaniia (Russian Music Gazette) 1909, Nr 11-15, and about the trial of Karakozov (Byloe, 1906, Nr 4).
Religion is an instrument of the ruling classes to instill in the masses the religious conviction that their current suffering will lead to eventual happiness.
All policy decisions should be made in the light of the continued, permanent development of the theory of Marxism–Leninism.