His teacher was Nikolai Roerich. By the end of his life telling your friends about Vasily time learning about Roerich. He said that they were such wonderful years, the sublime and dreamy, full of creative freedom. He finished training in 1915. The specialty of the artist became a lifelong historical subjects, genre and landscape paintings, executed in a classical realistic style.

In 1922 he became a lifetime of Muscovites. Draws posters, fills orders. Become especially famous illustrations for Gogol, Pushkin. Gaining increasing popularity of his views. The artist becomes a participant in many metropolitan exhibitions. He is fond of decorative painting. At this time, they are paintings "Fortress by the Sea," "Autumn," a series of "Old Russian architecture", "Feast on a rural street" permeated with optimism and a sincere joy, cheerfulness.

There are orders from the museums. He writes great paintings: "The peasant uprising in 1839" for the State History, "Battle of the Nikitsky Gate" for the Museum of History of Moscow. After the war, his work "A Letter from the Front," "Removal of the wounded," "Front Road" also took place in the museum. With a group of leading Grundy battle painters attracted to upgrade "Borodino Panorama."

But the greatest fame, he becomes one of the major artists to restore academic Roubaud panorama "The heroic defense of Sevastopol in 1853-56 years." Among all types of fine art panoramic painting holds a special place. And needed a creative courage to decide on the matter, who knew no equal in world history of the restoration. To implement his plan involved artists with vast experience and high skill. Restoration of the panorama was the case, which involved a large team, but one of the leaders held a VI Grande. Sevastopol was a city of Russian glory. Talk of his defense by Leo Tolstoy said, "How long will leave footprints in Russia, this great epic of Sevastopol, which was the hero of the Russian people." Participants in defense of Sevastopol were lgovchane - Zahar Ponomarev, Denis Prokopov, Paul Kilyanov, Akim Aseev, Basil Marfichev and others. Only about 80 people.

In the panorama shows one of the key moments of the war - a reflection of the fierce assault Mamaev Kurgan, after a nine-month siege of Anglo-French troops lost during the storm about seven thousand people. From the first group of several artists VI Grundy has worked on the preparation of the building, rigging canvases primed canvas. It has established a complete and accurate picture of all the panorama is created from which the canvas. Especially for Grundy on Mamaev Hill was built gazebo with glass walls, where every morning before dawn came an artist. Here he wrote sketches of the battle of Historic Places.

{Udozhniki remembered that when they saw a huge canvas of 1650 square meters, it was scary. But the work is captured. Grundy has been known for his paintings of the military-medical topics, and entrusted to him, among other writing did not appear in the panorama of the old episodes - "The surgeon NI Pirogov in the dressing station," "The first nurse sailor's daughter, Dasha."

When you have finished panorama, Grundy already started writing their own additions - diorama "Underground-mine warfare in Sevastopol." He spent most of the preparatory work has studied documentary and historical materials about the events taking place over a century ago. And the story is as follows. Unable to reach success in the storming of Sebastopol, the enemy decided to undermine the building, paving the underground tunnels and filling them with explosives. Russian intelligence has revealed it in time, and began to lay the defending counterclaims passages undermine the preventive destroying enemy. Thus was secured the approaches to the inaccessibility of underground Sevastopol. The experience became a world military history. This diorama is devoted to twenty-five square meters, and the entire composition of paintings, which fulfilled the VI Grande.

One, and this work would be enough to get into some of the largest battle painters of our country. He died July 5, 1970.