Vasily

Vasili, Vasily, Vasilii or Vasiliy (Russian: Василий) 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 (1469–1557), also known as Saint Basil, or Vasily Blazhenny *Vasily Alekseyev (1942–2011), Soviet weightlifter *Vasily Arkhipov (1926–1998), Soviet Naval officer in the Cuban Missile Crisis *Vasily Boldyrev (1875–1933), Russian general *Vasily Chapayev (1887–1969), Russian Army commander *Vasily Chuikov (1900–1982), Soviet marshal *Vasily Degtyaryov (1880–1949), Russian weapons designer and Major General *Vasily Dzhugashvili (1921–1962), Stalin's son *Vasili Golovachov (born 1948), Russian science fiction author *Vasily Grossman (1905–1964), Soviet writer and journalist *Vasily Ignatenko (1961–1986), Soviet firefighter in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster *Vasilii Alekseevich Iskovskikh (1939–2009), Russian mathematician *Vasily Kuznetsov (1901–1990), Soviet politician, acted three times as head of state of USSR *Vasyl Ivanchuk (born 1969), Ukrainian chess grandmaster *Wassily Kandinsky (''Vasily Kandinsky''; 1866–1944), Russian painter and art theorist. *Vasily Karatygin (1802–1880), Russian actor *Vasily Lanovoy (1934–2021), Russian actor *Vasily Livanov (born 1935), Russian actor and screenwriter *Vasily Lobanov (born 1947), Russian composer and pianist *Vasyl Lomachenko (''Vasily Lomachenko''; born 1988), Ukrainian boxer *Vasily Markovich (born 1955), Belarusian politician *Vasily Nezabitovsky (1824–1883), Ukrainian jurist *Vasily Petrenko (born 1976), Russian conductor *Vasily Podkolzin (born 2001), Russian ice hockey player currently playing for the Vancouver Canucks *Vasily Seseman (1884–1963), Russian and Lithuanian philosopher *Vasily Smyslov (1921–2010), Soviet chess player *Vasily Tsibliyev (born 1954), Russian cosmonaut *Vasily Zaytsev, Soviet sniper *Vasily Zakharov (1934–2023), Soviet culture minister *Vasily Zhdanov (born 1963), Soviet cyclist Provided by Wikipedia