Wassili Wassiljewitsch Wanin

Vasili Vasilyevich Vanin (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Ва́нин ; 13 January 1898 – 12 May 1951) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1949).

Vasili Vanin was born on 13 January 1898 in Tambov, in the family of a small railway employee. Having lost his father early, in 1906 he was assigned to an orphanage/ Between 1924 and 1950 he was actor and director in the Mossovet Theatre; from 1950 the leader of the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre.