Famous People with Name Vasily

Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Vasily Alekseyevich Degtyaryov: was a Russian weapons designer, Major General of the Engineering and Artillery Service, Doctor of Technical Sciences (1940), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1940, he received the second such award in the history just two weeks later than Joseph Stalin himsel

Vasily Andreevich Tropinin            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Vasily Andreevich Tropinin: was a Russian Romantic painter. Much of his life was spent as a serf; he didn't attain his freedom until he was more than forty years old. Three of his more important works are a portrait of Alexander Pushkin and paintings called The Lace Maker and The Go

Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky: was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s.He is credited with introducing the Romantic Movement to Russian literature. The main body of his literary output consists of free translations covering an impressively wide range of poets from Ferdowsi to Schill

Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov: was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists.

Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev: was a Soviet sniper during World War II, notable particularly for his activities between November 10 and December 17, 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad. He killed 225 soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht and other Axis armies, including 11 enemy snip