Аnatoliy Vasiliev was born on March 18, 1917 in Petrograd. In 1950 he graduated from the Repin Institute of Fine Arts, the workshop of Victor Oreshnikov. He studied with Benjamin Belkin, Pavel Naumov, Mikhail Bernshtein, Nikolai Rutkovsky, Igor Grabar. Participated in exhibitions since 1937. Member of the Leningrad Union of Artists since 1950. He painted portraits, genre scenes, thematic and historical compositions, landscapes, still lifes, etudes from nature. Personal exhibition in St. Petersburg (1995, 2017). The works of Anatoly Vasiliev are in the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, in museums and private collections in Russia, Japan, France, the United States and other countries..
