"Simon Sebag Montefiore referred to him as " That reptilian hanging judge..."==Notes====References==*Anton Antonov-Ovseenko, "The Time of Stalin"*Robert Conquest, "The Great Terror: A Reassessment"*Amy Knight, "Who Killed Kirov: The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery"*Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, "The Gulag Archipelago"*Arkady Vaksberg, "Stalin's Prosecutor: The Life of Andrei Vyshinsky"*Dmitri Volkogonov, "Stalin: Triumph and Tragedy"*Simon Sebag Montefiore, "Stalin, Court of the Red Tsar "
Leta 1910 se je Vasilij vrnil v Rigo in pričel s študijem na Riškem politehniškem inštitutu, kjer je diplomiral leta 1914.