Vasily Sipovsky

Vasily Dmitriyevich Sipovsky (Russian: Василий Дмитриевич Сиповский), born 8 May 1844, Uman, Russian Empire, died 2 August 1895, village Lisino, near Tosno) was a Russian historian, journalist, editor, and pedagogue, personal history tutor for Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna and Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich.

Contributing regularly to Semya i Shkola, Russkaya Shkola, Mir Bozhy and, most of all, to Obrazovaniye which he became an editor-in-chief of in 1876, Sipovsky left an extensive legacy, concerning mostly education in Russia, its current affairs and history. Sipovsky's magum opus Rodnaya Starina (Our Times of Old), a popular account of Russian history from the ancient times till Peter the Great, was re-issued 5 times before 1917, and then again in 2008 by Bely Gorod Publishers in Russia. In 1885—1895 Sipovsky was the director of Saint Petersburg College for the Deaf.

Sipovsky died in 1895, in village Lisino, nearby Tosno, and is interred in the Smolensky Cemetery.

His son Vasily Sipovsky (1872-1930) was a well-known Russian philologist.