Vasily was the son of a wealthy merchant and the brother of the well known physician Sergey Botkin.
Vasily Smyslov | Vasily Zhukovsky | Vasily Livanov | Vasily Golovnin | Vasily Polenov | Perry Botkin, Jr. | Vasily Vladimirovich Petrov | Vasily Rainchik | Vasily Perov | Vasily Lanovoy | Vasily Kafanov | Vasily Kachalov | Vasily Gorodtsov | Vasily Chapayev | Vasily Vasilyevich Rochev | Vasily Vasilievsky | Vasily Vasilievich Struve | Vasily Sokolovsky | Vasily Petrenko | Vasily Pavlovich Rochev | Vasily Orlov-Denisov | Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko | Vasily Konstantinovich | Vasily Kazakov | Vasily Karasev | Vasily Fyodorovich Trutovsky | Vasily Fesenkov | Vasily Dolgorukov | Vasily Botkin | Vasily Bartold |
In 1853, encouraged by Nikolay Nekrasov, Fet joined the then rising Sovremennik circle, meeting among new faces his old friends Ivan Turgenev and critic Vasily Botkin.