Vasili, Vasily, Vasilii or Vasiliy is a Russian masculine given name of Greek origin and corresponds to Basil. It may refer to: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 Vasily Arkhipov (1926–1998), Soviet Navy officer in the Cuban missile crisis Vasily Boldyrev (1875–1933), Russian general 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, 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 Vasyl Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess grandmaster Wassily Kandinsky, Russian painter and art theorist. Vasily Karatygin (1802–1880), Russian actor Vasily Livanov, Russian actor and screenwriter Vasily Lobanov, Russian composer and pianist Vasyl Lomachenko, Ukrainian boxer Vasily Nezabitovsky (1824–1883), Ukrainian jurist Vasily Petrenko, Russian conductor Vasily Seseman (1884–1963), Russian and Lithuanian philosopher Vasily Smyslov (1921–2010), Soviet chess player Vasily Tsibliyev, Russian cosmonaut Vasily Zaytsev, Soviet sniper Vasily Zhdanov, Soviet cyclistFictional charactersVasilii, 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.
