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Vasily
Vasili or Vasily is a Slavic male given name of Greek origin and corresponds to Basil. It may refer to:
Given name:
- Vasili I of Moscow Grand Prince from 1389–1425
- Vasili II of Moscow Grand Prince from 1425–1462
- Vasili III of Russia Tsar 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
- Vasili Arkhipov (1926–1998), Soviet Navy officer
- Vasily Chapayev (1887–1919), Russian Army commander
- Vasily Chuikov (1900–1982), Soviet marschal
- 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
- Vasyl Ivanchuk (born 1969), Ukrainian chess grandmaster
- Wassily Kandinsky, (1866–1944), Russian painter and art theorist.
- Vasily Karatygin (1802–1880), Russian actor
- Vasily Livanov (born 1935), Russian actor and screenwriter
- Vasily Lobanov (born 1947), Russian composer and pianist
- Vasily Nezabitovsky (1824–1883), Ukrainian jurist
- Vasily Petrenko (born 1976), Russian conductor
- 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 Zhdanov (born 1963), Soviet cyclist
Other:
- Vasili, a village in Cyprus
- Wassily Chair, 1920s furniture, named after Wassily Kandinsky
The surname Vasilyev is derived from the name. The surname Vasin is derived from Vasya, a short form of the name.
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