Vasily


Vasili, Vasily, Vasilii or Vasiliy is a Russian masculine given name of Greek origin and corresponds to Basil. It may refer to:
  • Vasily I of Moscow Grand Prince from 1389–1425
  • Vasily II of Moscow Grand Prince from 1425–1462
  • Vasili III of Russia Grand Prince from 1505–1533
  • Vasili IV of Russia Tsar from 1606–1610
  • Basil Fool for Christ, also known as Saint Basil, or Vasily Blazhenny
  • Vasily Alekseyev, Soviet weightlifter
  • Vasily Arkhipov, Soviet Naval officer in the Cuban Missile Crisis
  • Vasily Boldyrev, Russian general
  • Vasily Chapayev, Russian Army commander
  • Vasily Chuikov, Soviet marshal
  • Vasily Degtyaryov, Russian weapons designer and Major General
  • Vasily Dzhugashvili, Stalin's son
  • Vasili Golovachov, Russian science fiction author
  • Vasily Grossman, Soviet writer and journalist
  • Vasily Ignatenko, Soviet firefighter in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster
  • Vasilii Alekseevich Iskovskikh, Russian mathematician
  • Vasily Kuznetsov, Soviet politician, acted three times as head of state of USSR
  • Vasyl Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess grandmaster
  • Wassily Kandinsky, Russian painter and art theorist.
  • Vasily Karatygin, Russian actor
  • Vasily Lanovoy, Russian actor
  • Vasily Livanov, Russian actor and screenwriter
  • Vasily Lobanov, Russian composer and pianist
  • Vasyl Lomachenko, Ukrainian boxer
  • Vasily Markovich, Belarusian politician
  • Vasily Nezabitovsky, Ukrainian jurist
  • Vasily Petrenko, Russian conductor
  • Vasily Podkolzin, Russian ice hockey player currently playing for the Edmonton Oilers
  • Vasily Seseman, Russian and Lithuanian philosopher
  • Vasily Smyslov, Soviet chess player
  • Vasily Tsibliyev, Russian cosmonaut
  • Vasily Zaytsev, Soviet sniper
  • Vasily Zakharov, Soviet culture minister
  • Vasily Zhdanov, Soviet cyclist

    Fictional characters

  • Vasilii, a character from the Twilight book and film series
  • Vasily Borgov, a character from the novel The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis and in the Netflix miniseries of the same title based on the novel
  • Vasily Petrovych Goloborodko, protagonist of the TV series Servant of the People
  • Vasily Lantsov, a character from the Grishaverse book series by Leigh Bardugo
  • Vasily Pavlichenko, a character from Satoru Noda's seinen manga series, ''Golden Kamuy''