) – Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet ( b. 1703 )

Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky (; in Astrakhan – in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian poet, essayist and playwright who helped lay the foundations of classical Russian literature.

* Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian playwright, poet

* March 5 ( N. S .) – Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet ( d. 1768 )

Neither an aristocratic dilettante like Antiokh Kantemir nor a learned professor like Vasily Trediakovsky, he was the first gentleman in Russia to choose the profession of letters.

* Vasily Trediakovsky, poet

* Vasily Trediakovsky, academician, poet, translator

Vasily Trediakovsky, painting by Fyodor Rokotov

Among those graduates were the first Russian academicians Mikhail Lomonosov and Vasily Trediakovsky, poet Antioch Kantemir, architect Vasili Bazhenov, geographer Stepan Krasheninnikov, chemist Dmitry Vinogradov.

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* 1783 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet ( d. 1852 )

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Others, such as Nobel prize winning poet Joseph Brodsky, novelists Vasily Aksyonov, Eduard Limonov and Sasha Sokolov, and short story writer Sergei Dovlatov, had to emigrate to the US, while Venedikt Yerofeyev and Oleg Grigoriev " emigrated " to alcoholism.

The composer was violinist Alexei Lvov, and the lyrics were by the court poet Vasily Zhukovsky.

* Vasily Kamensky, Russian poet

Shortly thereafter Nekrasov authored his first collection of poetry, Dreams and Sounds, published under the name " N. N ." Though his patron poet Vasily Zhukovsky expressed a favorable opinion of the beginner's work, it was promptly dismissed as Romantic doggerel by Vissarion Belinsky, the most important Russian literary critic of the first half of 19th century, in.

* Vasily Pushkin-lesser-known poet, Aleksander Pushkin's uncle

In the 1830s, the novella was translated into Russian dactylic hexameter verse by the Romantic poet Vasily Zhukovsky.

Through these men Shevchenko also met the famous painter and professor Karl Briullov, who donated his portrait of the Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky as a lottery prize, whose proceeds were used to buy Shevchenko's freedom on May 5, 1838.

* Vasily Fyodorov, a Russian poet

Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (; – ) was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century.

Vasily Ivanovich Lebedev-Kumach () Moscow, — 20 February 1949 ) was a Soviet Russian poet and lyricist.

* Vasily Bogdanov ( 1837 – 1886 ), Russian poet

* Vasily Botkin ( 1812-1869 ), critic and essayist, brother of Sergey Botkin

The term „ gothic “ is sometimes also used to describe the ballads of Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky ( particularly " Ludmila " ( 1808 ) and " Svetlana " ( 1813 )).

A rifle of the famous sniper Vasily Zaytsev ( popularized in Western media in the film Enemy at the Gates ) is also on display.

Nizhny Novgorod has a great and extraordinary art gallery with more than 12, 000 exhibits, an enormous collection of works by Russian artists such as Viktor Vasnetsov, Karl Briullov, Ivan Shishkin, Ivan Kramskoi, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Isaak Iljitsch Lewitan, Vasily Surikov, Ivan Aivazovsky, there are also greater collections of works by Boris Kustodiev and Nicholas Roerich, not only Russian art is part of the exhibition it include also a vast accumulation of Western European art like works by David Teniers the Younger, Bernardo Bellotto, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pieter de Grebber, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and lot more.

Keene brought Victor Korchnoi and Garry Kasparov together for their 1983 Candidates ' semi-final match in London as part of the 1984 World Championship cycle ; the semi-final match between Vasily Smyslov and Zoltán Ribli was also played at the same site.

However unlike in previous year also the Russian fleet was active with a galley fleet of 45 galleys under General Vasily Yakovlevich Levashov and open sea fleet of at least 12 ships of the line under Admiral Zahar Danilovich Mishukov.

Famous Russian realist painters like Vasily Perov and Ilya Repin also tried out in the genre paintings.

For this, together with the Medal for Courage, Vasily was also awarded a sniper rifle.

Black also has two rare alternatives on his eighth move worth mentioning: 8 ... Qe7 intending ... Rd8 is the Smyslov Variation, invented by former World Champion Vasily Smyslov, and 8 ... Bd7 followed by ... Bc6 is the Bronstein Variation, the brainchild of two-time world championship finalist David Bronstein.

Vasily Ilyich Safonov (, also known as Wassily Safonoff ; 6 February 185227 February 1918 ) was a Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer.

One of them, the first secretary of the Russian Embassy in Qatar, Aleksandr Fetisov, was released in March due to his diplomatic status and the remaining two, the GRU agents Anatoly Yablochkov ( also known as Belashkov ) and Vasily Pugachyov ( sometimes misspelled as Bogachyov ), were charged with the assassination of Yandarbiyev, an assassination attempt of his son Daud Yandarbiyev, and smuggling weapons into Qatar.

On July 29, 1586, Tsar Feodor I ordered two regional commanders, Vasily Borisov-Sukin and Ivan Myasnoy, to construct a fortress on the site of the former Tatar town of Chingi-Tura (' city of Chingis '), also known as Tyumen, from the Turkish and Mongol word for ' ten thousand.

Black also cannot force a Grünfeld with 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5, since White can deviate with 3. cxd5 Nxd5 4. g3, a line played several times by Mikhail Botvinnik in 1958, in his final match for the world championship with Vasily Smyslov.

Soviet sniper Vasily Zaytsev was also reburied there in 2006.

Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher ( also spelled Bliukher, Blücher, etc., () ( – November 9, 1938 ), Soviet military commander, was among the prominent victims of Joseph Stalin's Great Purge of the late 1930s.

Basil the Blessed ( known also as Basil, fool for Christ ; Basil, Wonderworker of Moscow ; or Blessed Basil of Moscow, fool for Christ, Vasily Blazhenny ) is a Russian Orthodox saint of the type known as yurodivy or " holy fool for Christ ".

Ivan Kerzelli, Vasily Pashkevich and Yevstigney Fomin also wrote a series of successful comic operas in the 18th century.

Vasily IV of Russia, besieged in Moscow by the Tushino gang and driven to despair by the ongoing Polish intervention, then entered an alliance with Charles IX, who was also waging war against Poland.

Vasil Pavlovich Mzhavanadze ( also Vasily ; ; ; Kutaisi, – 5 September 1988 ) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Georgian SSR from September 1953 to September 28, 1972 and a member of the CPSU's Politburo from June 29, 1957 to December 18, 1972.

Offended and angered by Sigismund, the boyars dragged their feet on supporting Władysław – they were divided between electing Vasily Galitzine, Michael Romanov ( also 15 years old ), or the second False Dmitriy.

The Ioachim Chronicle ( ru: Иоакимовская Летопись ), also spelled Joachim or Ioakim ) is a chronicle discovered by the Russian historian Vasily Tatishchev in the 18th century.

He also released from prison his cousin, Prince Andrey Mikhailovich, who had governed Yugoria and Nizhny Novgorod during Vasily III's reign before having been incarcerated on charges of high treason.

His main hobby is singing operatic arias ; he has a fine baritone voice, a quality shared by Vasily Smyslov, a chess world champion and grandmaster who had also talent as an operatic singer.