[1] Throughout his career, Vasilyev did not disclose his father's surname; when asked why he did so, he claimed that it was due to his aristocratic association, saying, "My mother did not take care of me so that I would perish."
[2] Following his military service, he returned to acting; he played the minor role of Pyotr Stolypin in Sergei Gerasimov's final film, Lev Tolstoy.
When it split the next year, he, along with his supporters, formed the National Patriotic Front "Memory", which would eventually be recognised as the primary successor organisation to the original Pamyat.
He was considered to be a staunch antisemite, though he refused such accusations (due to Arabs being a Semitic group), and instead simply said that he was an anti-Zionist, claiming that Zionism was the desire of Jews to take over the world with the assistance of freemasons.
In 1999, during the Kosovo War, Vasilyev also supported Slobodan Milošević, and called for Russia to intervene against NATO forces, which were bombing Serbia at the time.