Vasily Dmitriyevich Smirnov

Vasily Dmitriyevich Smirnov (Васи́лий Дми́триевич Смирно́в; born July 28 O.S./August 9 N.S., 1846 in Biryuchya Kosa, Astrakhan Governorate; died May 25, 1922, in Petrograd) was a Russian orientalist, specializing in the history and literature of the Ottoman Empire.