Varvara Dmitrievna Komarova

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Varvara Dmitrievna Komarova , born Varvara Dmitrievna Stassowa , ( Russian Варвара Дмитриевна Комарова , maiden name Стасова ; born August 12 . Jul / 24. August  1862 greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 10. February 1943 in Leningrad ) was a Russian musicologist , literary scholar and writer .

Life

Varvara, daughter of the lawyer Dmitri Stassow and niece of the art critic Vladimir Stassow , studied music with Balakirew and Rimsky-Korsakov and worked as a singer under the direction of Polina Levitskaya and Cesare Trombini , with advice from Ippolit Prjanischnikow .

Varvara made his literary debut in 1888 with the novel Musja under the pseudonym Wladimir Karenin ( Владимир Каренин ) in the tradition of the women's novel by George Sand . She published a number of works for children, and in 1916 she edited an anthology of short stories and fairy tales.

In 1892, under the impression of acquaintance with George Sand's daughter-in-law ( Maurice Sand's wife) , Warwara began to occupy herself with the life and work of the writer. This resulted in a fundamental work on George Sand's life and work, the first volume of which appeared in 1899 and was awarded an honorary diploma in the Pushkin Prize Competition of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) in 1903 .

In 1912 Varvara became a research assistant in the manuscript department of the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) . After the October Revolution she was the scientific supervisor of this department (until 1932). In 1919 the second volume of her George Sand work, published in 1916, and the third volume, which was only available in handwriting, were awarded the RAN Metropolitan Macarius Bulgakov Prize. The third volume no longer appeared in Russian , but in 1926 as the fourth volume of a French complete edition, in which the first two Russian volumes were divided into three volumes. The extensive archive of the Stasov family came to the Pushkin House through Varvara . She then published a two-volume work on the life and work of her revered uncle Vladimir Stasov. She had also written memoirs of Balakirew and Mussorgsky and edited her father's correspondence with Clara Schumann .

Varvara died during the Leningrad blockade . The revolutionary Yelena Dmitrievna Stasova was her younger sister.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BnF: Vladimir Karenin (1862–1942): pseudonyms individuel (accessed June 7, 2017).
  2. ↑ КАРЕНИН Вл. (accessed June 7, 2017).
  3. ↑ Е. Х. Закирова: Вл. Каренин (В. Д. Комарова-Стасова) и Жорж Санд . In: Вестник Московского государственного гуманитарного университета им. М. А. Шолохова. Филологические науки . No. 2 , 2011, p. 19-26 .
  4. ↑ В. Каренин: Жорж Санд ее жизнь и произведения: 1804–1838 . St. Petersburg 1899.
  5. ↑ Vladimir Karénine: George Sand, sa vie et ses œuvres . Les petits-fils de Plon et Nourrit, Paris 1899.
  6. ↑ Н. В. Измайлов: Из воспоминаний о Пушкинском доме (1918–1928) (accessed June 7, 2016) . In: Русская литература . No. 1 , 1981.
  7. ↑ В. Каренин: Владимир Стасов. Очерк его жизни и деятельности . 1927.
personal data
SURNAME Komarowa, Varvara Dmitrievna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stasowa, Varvara Dmitrijewna (maiden name); Комарова, Варвара Дмитриевна (Russian); Стасова (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian musicologist, literary scholar and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1943
Place of death Leningrad