Vasily Trofimovich Narezhny was a Russian Imperial writer best known for his satirical depiction of provincial mores in the vein of the 18th-century picaresque novel.
Vasily Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko was a Russian writer, essayist, journalist, memoirist, and the brother of famous theater director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko, the most prolific Russian Empire writer of the late 19th-early 20th century, published more than 250 books; he was widely popular among the general reading public, but had little success with mainstream critics.
Vasily Andreyevich Nezabitovsky was a jurist, born in Radomyshl in the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire. He graduated from Kyiv University of St. Vladimir. In 1853, Nezabitovsky transferred to the faculty of international law at Kyiv University.
Vasily Alexeyevich Pashkevich also Paskevich was a Russian composer, singer, violinist and teacher of Ukrainian origin who lived during the time of Catherine the Great.
Vasily Mikhailovich Peskov was a Russian writer, journalist, photographer, traveller and ecologist. He worked in the Russian tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda since 1956. From 1975 until 1990, he conducted the TV programme In the World of Animals on Soviet TV.
Vasily Vasilievich Radlov or Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff was a German-born Russian founder of Turkology, a scientific study of Turkic peoples. According to Turkologist Johan Vandewalle; he knew all the Turkic languages and dialects as well as German, French, Russian, Greek, Latin, Manchu, Mongolian, Chinese, Arabic, Persian and Hebrew.
Vasily Ivanovich Rakov was a pilot in the Soviet Naval Aviation who was twice awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in 1940 and 1945 for his actions in the Winter War and World War II respectively; afterward, he remained in the military, reaching the rank of Major-General.
Vasily Vasilievich Rozanov was one of the most controversial Russian writers and important philosophers in the symbolists' of the pre-revolutionary epoch.
