Vasily Grigoryevich Grigorovich-Barsky (Ukrainian: Василь Григорович Григорович-Барський; January 1 (12), 1701, Kyiv, Russian Tsardom — October 7(18), 1747, Kyiv, Russian Empire) was a pilgrim, traveller, writer, and Orthodox monk. He used various pseudonyms, including Vasily Barsky, Vasily Kievsky, Vasily Kyiv-Rossiysky, Vasily Ros, Vasily Plaka, and Vasily Plaka-Albov.

He was born into a merchant family. His father, Grigory Ivanovich Grigorovich, had moved from the Podolsk town of Bar along with his father. Vasily received initial home education and, from 1708, was taught by teachers from the Kyiv Spiritual Academy. He was a student at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy from 1715 to 1723. He was the brother of the well-known Kyiv architect Ivan Grigorovich-Barsky.

In 1723, he left the Academy, citing illness as the official reason, after, according to his own words, going through "small schools even to rhetoric... and began philosophy". He was not attracted to a career in the priesthood, and he "wanted to see foreign countries". With Iustin Lenitsky, brother of Bishop Varlaam Lenitsky, he went to Lviv (Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth), where he entered a Jesuit college under the guise of a Uniate in early 1724. Still, the deception was uncovered, and he left the school, although the bishop's order cancelled the disgraceful exclusion.

In 1724, the travellers went through Slovakia, Hungary, and Austria to Italy, intending to worship the relics of Nicholas of Myra in the city of Bari, visiting Rome, Naples, Venice, Bologna, and Florence along the way.

In 1725, parting ways with Lenitsky, he set off for Mount Athos. His companion was the former archimandrite of the Tikhvin Monastery, Ruvim Gursky, a trusted person of Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich, who fled from Russia after the investigation into the son of Peter I began. Gursky died before reaching Athos.

From 1726 to 1728, he wandered through Palestine, visited Jerusalem, Jordan, was on the Dead Sea, went to Cairo, looked at the Sinai Monastery, and through Suez, Damietta, Beirut, and Tripoli reached Damascus, and then again went to Sinai and Palestine. During his journey through Lebanon in 1728, he visited the Monastery of Elijah the Prophet in Ash-Shweir. From 1729-1731, he lived in Tripoli, studying Old and New Greek language and literature, philosophy, logic, and natural sciences. During the holidays, he visited Alexandria, Cyprus, Symi, Samos, Chios, and Patmos. He saw the monastery from this side of this entrance, unlike the modern central access from the other side.