person
Vasily Vasilyich
also: Василий Васильич
A gentleman-landowner and dilettante illustrator in Olga Ivanovna's artistic circle in "The Grasshopper," mentioned once among the celebrities and near-celebrities at her wedding: strongly drawn to the old Russian style, the byliny and epic, and capable of working "literal wonders" in illustration on paper, porcelain, and smoked plates. He does not reappear after the story's opening roll call of Olga's fashionable acquaintances.