Varvara Komarova-Stasova

Varvara Dmitrievna Komarova-Stasova (1862 – 1942) was a Russian writer and musicologist, who published under the pen name Vladimir Karenin.

[2] Varvara Stasova was the daughter of the liberal lawyer Dmitry Stasov.

Her aunt was the feminist Nadezhda Stasova, and her younger sister Elena became a leading Bolshevik.

[2] In a book of memoirs, Childhood Memories of Great People, she recalled visitors to her childhood home including Modest Mussorgsky.

Her next effort was a biography of the 18th-century German actor-manager Friederike Caroline Neuber, which she later tried unsuccessfully to adapt for the stage.