Famous People with Name Vasily

Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov: was a lieutenant general in the Soviet Red Army during World War II, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1944, 1945), who after the war became a Marshal of the Soviet Union.

Vasily Ivanovich Surikov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Vasily Ivanovich Surikov: was the foremost Russian painter of large-scale historical subjects. His major pieces are among the best-known paintings in Russia.

Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky: a Russian poet who helped lay foundations of classical Russian literature. Trediakovsky was a Russian literary theoretician and poet whose writings contributed to the classical foundations of Russian literature

Vasily Makarovich Shukshin            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Vasily Makarovich Shukshin: was a notable Soviet/Russian actor, writer, screenwriter and movie director from the Altay region who specialized in rural themes. Upon his death, Shukshin was interred at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov: is a Russian novelist who began his career in the Soviet era. He is known in the West as the author of The Burn (????, Ozhog, from 1975) and the critically acclaimed[citation needed] Generations of Winter (?????????? ????, Moskovskaya Saga, from 1992), a