| Vasily Sipovsky | |
| Birthname: | Василий Дмитриевич Сиповский Василий Дмитриевич Сиповский |
| Birth Date: | 1844 5, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Moscow, Russian Empire |
| Death Place: | Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Occupation: | historian, journalist, editor, educational theorist |
Vasily Dmitriyevich Sipovsky (Russian: link=no|Василий Дмитриевич Сиповский) was a Russian Empire historian, journalist, editor, and pedagogue, personal history tutor for Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna and Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich.
Sipovsky was born on 8 May 1844 in Uman, and studied philosophy and history at the Saint Petersburg University. Contributing regularly to Semya i Shkola, Russkaya Shkola, Mir Bozhy as well as Obrazovaniye, which he became an editor-in-chief of in 1876, Sipovsky left an extensive legacy, concerning mostly education in Russia, its current affairs and history. Sipovsky's magum opus Rodnaya Starina (Our Times of Old), a popular account of Russian history from the ancient times till Peter the Great, was re-issued 5 times before 1917, and then again in 2008 by Bely Gorod Publishers in Russia. In 1885—1895 Sipovsky was the director of Saint Petersburg College for the Deaf.[1]
Sipovsky died in 1895, in village Lisino, nearby Tosno, and is interred in the Smolensky Cemetery.
His son Vasily Sipovsky (1872–1930) was a well-known Russian philologist.[2]