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Vash Level 2 (વશ: લેવલ 2)
Vash Level 2 (વશ: લેવલ 2) is a 2025 Gujarati supernatural horror film by Krishnadev Yagnik, sequel to Vash (2023), starring Janki Bodiwala, Hitu Kanodia, and Hiten Kumar; released 27 August 2025 and streaming on Netflix from 22 October 2025.
Vash the Stampede (ヴァッシュ・ザ・スタンピード)
Vash the Stampede (ヴァッシュ・ザ・スタンピード) is the pacifist gunman protagonist of Yasuhiro Nightow's Trigun, feared as the Humanoid Typhoon with a huge double-dollar bounty, brother of Millions Knives, hiding as Eriks after Lost July, and voiced by Yoshitsugu Matsuoka in the 2023-2026 anime.
Vashti Bunyan
Vashti Bunyan (Jennifer Vashti Bunyan, born 1945), English folk singer-songwriter of Just Another Diamond Day (1970); quit music after its failure, returned with Lookaftering (2005) and Heartleap (2014).
Vasil Bykau
Vasil Bykau (Belarusian: Васіль Быкаў, 1924–2003) was a Belarusian writer, considered the leading Belarusian author of the post-Stalin period, known for war fiction centered on moral choice.
Vasil Vitka
Vasil Vitka (Васіль Вітка, born Timofey Krysko, 1911–1996) was a Belarusian Soviet poet and playwright known chiefly for children's literature, winning the 1972 Yanka Kupala State Prize.
Vasile Alecsandri
Vasile Alecsandri (1821–1890) was a Romanian poet, dramatist, folklorist, politician, and diplomat, a leading figure of the 1848 generation who wrote the Pasteluri and Chirița comedies and campaigned for the union of the Romanian Principalities.
Vasily Aksyonov
Vasily Aksyonov (Василий Аксёнов, 1932–2009) was a Soviet and Russian novelist and playwright, a leading voice of the 1960s youth prose who was stripped of his Soviet citizenship in 1981.
Vasily Grossman (Василий Семёнович Гроссман)
Vasily Grossman (Василий Семёнович Гроссман, 1905–1964), Soviet writer and Red Star war correspondent; author of Life and Fate, the Stalingrad epic seized by the KGB in 1961 and published abroad in 1980.
Vasily Perov
Vasily Perov (Василий Перов) was a Russian critical realist painter of genre scenes and portraits, a founding member of the Peredvizhniki who taught at the Moscow School.
Vasily Petrenko (Василий Эдуардович Петренко)
Vasily Petrenko (Василий Эдуардович Петренко, born 1976, Leningrad) is a Russian conductor, Music Director of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra since 2021 and former chief conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (2006–2021) and Oslo Philharmonic (2013–2020); unrelated to Kirill Petrenko and to the Another World VR entrepreneur of the same name.
Vasily Polenov
Vasily Polenov, also known as Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov, was a Russian Peredvizhniki painter known for lyrical landscapes like Moscow Courtyard (1878) and his cycle From the Life of Christ.
Vasily Rozanov
Vasily Rozanov (Василий Васильевич Розанов, 1856–1919) was a Russian religious philosopher and writer, a leading voice of the Russian Religious-Philosophical Renaissance known for works on sex, marriage, and the family.
Vasily Shukshin (Василий Макарович Шукшин)
Vasily Shukshin (Василий Макарович Шукшин, 1929–1974), Soviet writer, film director, and actor from Srostki, Altai. Leading figure of village prose; director of Kalina krasnaya and Pechki-lavochki; USSR State Prize and Lenin Prize laureate; died filming Oni srazhalis za Rodinu.
Vasily Surikov (Василий Иванович Суриков)
Vasily Ivanovich Surikov (Василий Иванович Суриков), 1848–1916, Russian historical painter from Krasnoyarsk; creator of The Morning of the Streltsy Execution, Menshikov in Beryozovo, Boyarina Morozova, and The Conquest of Siberia by Yermak.
Vasily Trediakovsky
Vasily Trediakovsky (1703–1769) was a Russian poet and philologist who began the reform of Russian versification and was the first Russian professor at the Academy of Sciences.
Vasily Tropinin
Vasily Andreyevich Tropinin (Василий Тропинин) was a Russian portrait painter who spent half his life as a serf, becoming an academician and Moscow's leading portraitist.
Vasily Tyorkin
Vasily Tyorkin (Василий Тёркин) is the soldier-hero of Alexander Tvardovsky's 1942 verse work Vasily Tyorkin: A Book about a Fighter, the best-known literary work on the Great Patriotic War.
Vasily Vereshchagin (Василий Васильевич Верещагин)
Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (Василий Васильевич Верещагин), 1842–1904, Russian battle painter, writer, and ethnographic collector; creator of the Turkestan, Balkan, and 1812 series, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, died on the battleship Petropavlovsk at Port Arthur.
Vasily Zhukovsky
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (Василий Жуковский, 1783–1852) was a Russian poet and translator regarded as the founder of Romanticism in Russian poetry and tutor of Alexander II.
Vaslav Nijinsky
Vaslav Nijinsky (Вацлав Нижинский), Russian dancer and choreographer of Polish descent, star of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes; choreographed L'Après-midi d'un faune (1912) and Le Sacre du printemps (1913); schizophrenia ended his career in 1919.
Vasokht
Vasokht (واسوخت) is a genre of Persian and Urdu lyric poetry in which the lover turns away from the beloved, complaining of infidelity, said to originate with Vahshi Bafqi in 16th-century Persia.
Vasool Raja MBBS
Vasool Raja MBBS (வசூல் ராஜா MBBS) is a 2004 Tamil comedy-drama, the Saran-directed Tamil remake of Munna Bhai MBBS, starring Kamal Haasan as a debt collector who enrolls in medical college, with Prakash Raj, Prabhu, Sneha, Crazy Mohan dialogues, and Bharadwaj music.
Vassili Schneider
Vassili Schneider (born 1999, Montreal) is a French-Canadian actor, youngest of the Schneider acting brothers (Niels, Aliocha, Volodia). Known for Mixte, The Count of Monte Cristo (2024), and the 2025 Molière for most promising male newcomer.
Vast Mountains and Rivers Are in My Arms (万里江山入我怀)
万里江山入我怀 (Vast Mountains and Rivers Are in My Arms) is a 74-episode 2025 Chinese vertical short drama directed by Gan Jinglong, starring Xie Zecheng and Liu Jinyan, about a transmigrated scholar with a three-wife favorability system; it passed 1.4 billion views and ranked second on DataEye's August 2025 monthly heat list.
Vasucharitra
Vasucharitra (వసుచరిత్ర, also written Vasucaritramu) is a sixteenth-century Telugu prabandha, a classical court poem composed by Bhattumurti, better known as Ramaraja Bhushana, and praised as a perfect Prabandha of its age.
Vasudha (वसुधा) (TV Series)
Vasudha (वसुधा) is a Hindi Zee TV drama premiering 16 September 2024, a remake of Marathi serial Paaru, produced by Arvind Babbal Productions, starring Priya Thakur as maid Vasudha and Nausheen Ali Sardar as businesswoman Chandrika; it topped 2026 TRP charts.
Vasuki Vaibhav
Vasuki Vaibhav is an Indian film music composer, lyricist, and playback singer who works primarily in Kannada cinema, known for Rama Rama Re and Badava Rascal.
Vasundhara Das
Vasundhara Das (born 1977, Bengaluru) is an Indian actor, Hindustani-trained playback singer, composer, and entrepreneur, known for Hey Ram, Monsoon Wedding, and Drumjam, and distinct from unrelated Vasundhara real-estate projects.
Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga
Vasuvum Saravananum Onna Padichavanga (VSOP, வாசுவும் சரவணனும் ஒண்ணா படிச்சவங்க) is a 2015 Tamil romantic comedy directed by M. Rajesh, starring Arya, Santhanam, and Tamannaah, released 14 August 2015 to mixed reviews.
Vasyl Barvinsky
Vasyl Barvinsky (Василь Барвінський, 1888 to 1963) was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, and first director of the Lviv Conservatory whose manuscripts were destroyed after his 1948 Soviet arrest.