# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-vasiliev
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:44:15.084Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alexander-vasiliev"
name: "Alexander Vasiliev"
slug: "alexander-vasiliev"
description: "Alexander Alexandrovich Vasiliev was a Russian historian. He was considered the foremost authority on Byzantine history and culture in the mid-20th century. His History of the Byzantine Empire remains one of a few comprehensive accounts of the entire Byzantine history, on the par with those authored by Edward Gibbon and Fyodor Uspensky."
tagline: "Russian historian (1867–1953)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vasiliev_AA_historian.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1867-09-22"
deathDate: "1953-05-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.09280266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump