Count Vasily Vasilievich Kapnist (Russian: Василий Васильевич Капнист, 23 February 1758 – 9 November 1823), was a Russian poet,[1] playwright and nobleman who was known as an active critic of serfdom in Russia and as a proponent of restoration of the Zaporozhian host in the region of southern Ukraine.[2]
- ^ Vasily Kapnist (Oxford Reference)
- ^ Magocsi, Paul Robert (2010). A History of Ukraine: The Land and Its Peoples, Second Edition. University of Toronto Press. p. 332. ISBN 9781442698796.