His teacher was Nicholas Roerich. From this period comes the name Grande. There is an assumption, not under the influence of a teacher, an enthusiastic history and religion of India, there was this nickname? Until 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 lifetime historical subjects, landscape and genre painting, executed in a classical realist style.

Since 1922, he became a lifetime of Muscovites. Draws posters, carries out orders. Of particular prominence acquire illustrations to Gogol, Alexander Pushkin. Gaining increasing popularity of his landscapes. The artist becomes a participant in many metropolitan exhibitions. He is fond of decorative painting. At this time, they created paintings "Fortress at Sea", "Autumn", a series of "Old Russian architecture", "Holiday in the countryside outside" riddled optimistic, sincere, fun, love of life.

Appear on the orders of museums. He writes large canvases: "The peasant uprising in 1839" for the State History, "Battle of the Nikitsky Gate" for the History Museum in Moscow. After the war, his work "A Letter from the Front", "Removal of the wounded," "Frontline road" also took place in the museum. With a group of leading battle painters Grande attracted to update "Borodino Panorama."

But the greatest fame he acquired as one of the major artists to restore the panorama of Academician Roubaud "heroic defense of Sevastopol in 1853-56 years." Among all types of fine art panoramic painting has a special place. And needed a creative courage to decide on the case, who knew no equal in world history of restoration. To implement his plan attracted artists with vast experience and great skill. Restoring the panorama has become a matter, which was attended by a large team, but one of the highest occupied VI Grande. Sevastopol was a city of Russian glory. Talk of his defense, Leo Tolstoy said: "For a long time in Russia will leave traces of this great epic of Sevastopol, which the hero was the Russian people." Participants in the protection of Sevastopol were lgovchane - Zahar Ponomarev, Denis Prokopov, Paul Kilyanov, Akim Aseev Marfichev Basil and others. Only about 80 people.

The panorama shows one of the key moments of the war - a reflection of a violent assault on Mamayev Hill after a nine Anglo-French siege of the troops lost during the storming of about seven thousand people. From the first group of several artists VI Grande has worked on the preparation of the building, rigging canvas, primed canvas. It has established a complete and accurate picture across the panorama, which is produced with a cloth. Especially for Grundy on Mamaev Hill was built pavilion with glass walls, where every morning before dawn, came to the artist. Here he wrote sketches of historical sites of battle.

Artists remembered that when they saw the huge canvas of 1650 square meters, it was scary. But the work is captured. Grande has been known for his paintings on military medical issues, and he entrusted, among other writing were absent in the previous panorama episodes - "The surgeon NI Pirogov at the dressing station," "The first nurse sailor's daughter Dasha."

Finished panorama, Grundy already started writing their own additions - diorama "Underground-mine warfare in Sevastopol." He spent much 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 has decided to undermine the capacity, paving the underground tunnels and filling them with explosives. Russian intelligence has revealed it in time, and began to run counter defending passes, undermining preventive destroying enemy. So unassailable was secured underground approaches to Sevastopol. The experience became a world military history. This diorama is devoted to twenty-five square meters, the entire pictorial composition and the work it performed VI Grande.

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