22) Kandinsky, Wassily. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Paris, 1934-1944 (1985); A. and L. Vezin, Kandinsky and the Blue Rider (1992); T. M. Messer, Vasily Kandinsky (1997); U. Becks-Malorny, Wassily Kandinsky, 1866-1944:...

23) Moscow, grand duchy of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...bear the title grand duke of Moscow. Dmitri's successors, above all Ivan III (1462-1505) and Vasily III (1505-33), laid the basis of Muscovite absolutism, built the...

24) Stalin, Joseph Vissarionovich. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...first wife, died in Nazi captivity. He had a son and a daughter by his second wife. His son, Vasily, was an officer in the Soviet air force before his death in 1962....

25) Russia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...duchy of Vladimir was bequeathed, without the sanction of the Golden Horde, to his son Vasily (reigned 1389-1425), and its rulers began to be called grand dukes of...