Vasiliy Grossman was born on December 12, 1905 in Berdychiv, Kyiv Governorate, Russian Empire [now Berdychiv, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer, known for Stalingrad (2013), Stepan Kolchugin (1957) and Die Kommissarin (1967). He was married to Olga Guber, Ekaterina Zabolotskaya and Galina Matsuk Petrowna. He died on December 15, 1964 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].
