Proper noun
Vasili
Alternative form of Vasily
Events Births * March 10 Vasili II of Russia (d. Source: Internet
Another Soviet officer, Vasili Arkhipov, persuaded the captain not to attack and to await orders instead. Source: Internet
Mattingly informs us that Figueres is alleged to have received more than $300,000 from the KGB according to a recent book “The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World,” written by KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin. Source: Internet
Whilst Spangberg headed east to Okhotsk, Bering waited in Yakutsk, preparing two ships on the Lena (one would be captained by Vasili Pronchishchev and the other first by Peter Lassenius and later by Dmitry Laptev ). Source: Internet
Sebag-Montefiore, 571 Stalin's aide Vasili Lozgachev reported that Beria and Malenkov were the first members of the Politburo to investigate Stalin's condition after his stroke. Source: Internet
In 1539, the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent asked Grand Duke Vasili III of Russia to restrain the Cossacks; the Duke replied: "The Cossacks do not swear allegiance to me, and they live as they themselves please." Source: Internet