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  • Gilden admits his striking photo of Vasiliy screaming is posed, but says it reflects a wider truth about the abject reality of the Russian countryside, a truth appreciated by Chekhov and turned into an existential trope: It's a yell at being stuck in this godforsaken place.

    East of Eden Luke Harding 2010

  • There is Vasiliy, a retired criminal who murdered his stepfather.

    East of Eden Luke Harding 2010

  • This was written almost 200 years ago by Vasiliy Fyodorovich

    Mikhail Gorbachev - Nobel Lecture 1990

  • If you do not behave, Vasiliy here will make you wish you did.

    The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988

  • Vasiliy snapped one ring on his left wrist and reached through the steering wheel to attach the other to the driver.

    The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988

  • "They flew to Talinn yesterday," Vasiliy answered lamely.

    The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988

  • "The men seem alert," Vasiliy observed as they crossed runway twenty-five-left.

    The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988

  • Ministers Petr PROKOPOVICH (since 23 December 1996) and Vasiliy

    The 1999 CIA Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • So it was on the day when Vasiliy was leaving for Shcherbakova.

    Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood 1906

  • His great-grandchild, Andrey Kharitonovich, who moved from Chernigov to Moscow and received from the Grand Duke Vasiliy Tyomniy the surname of Tolstoy, was the founder of the branch known to us as the Tolstoys (in which branch Count Lev Tolstoy was born in the twentieth generation from the founder Indris).

    Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood 1906

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