Wassily Explained

Wassily or Wassili is a masculine given name. It is a variant of the Russian name Vasily. Notable people with the name include:

• Wassily de Basil (1888–1951), Russian ballet impresario
• Wassily Gerassimez (born 1991), German cellist and composer
• Wassily Hoeffding (1914–1991), Finnish statistician and probabilist
• Wassily Jakowlew (1839–1908), Russian zoologist
• Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944), Russian painter and art theorist
  • List of paintings by Wassily Kandinsky
• Wassily von Kwetzinsky (1898–1970), Russian-born Norwegian music critic and writer
• Wassily Leontief (1905–1999), Soviet-American economist
  • Wassily Leontief Prize
• Wassili Leps (1870–1942), Russian-born American composer and conductor
• Wassili Luckhardt (1889–1972), German architect
• Wassily Safonoff (1852–1918), Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer
• Wassily Sapellnikoff (1867–1941), Ukrainian-born Russian pianist

See also

• Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer