Vasily Ivanovich Maykov (Василий Иванович Майков, 1728, Yaroslavl, Russian Empire, - 28 June 1778, Moscow, Russian Empire) — was a Russian poet, fabulist, playwright and translator, an exponent of the mock-heroic poetry genre in Russia. The Works by V.I.Maykov were first compiled in 1809, to be revised and re-issued by Pyotr Yefremov in 1867. In the USSR The Selected Works by V.I. Maykov were published in 1966 by Sovetsky Pisatel.