Author: Алекса́ндр Алекса́ндрович Васи́льев
Alternate names: A. A. Vasilʹev; Alexander Vasiliev; Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev
Born: 4 October 1867
Died: 30 May 1953
Bio: Considered the foremost authority on Byzantine history and culture in the mid-20th century, his History of the Byzantine Empire (vol. 1–2, 1928) remains one of a few comprehensive accounts of the entire Byzantine history, on par with those authored by Edward Gibbon and Fyodor Uspensky.