In 2015, by public poll, he was awarded Discovery of the Year QG Prize, for his first ballet evening as choreographer.

When 2010 came to an end he had already performed the leading roles in Le Corsaire, Flames of Paris, Don Quixote, Giselle, La Fille Mal-Gardée, Spartacus, Petrouchka, The Nutcracker, La Esmeralda, La Bayadère and been promoted to the rank of principal of the Bolshoi Ballet; he was the last dancer to be coached by Roland Petit in the role of Le Jeune Homme, and had joined The Kings of The Dance international group of male dancer stars.

Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova, his then-fiancée, left the Bolshoi in the end of 2011, in the search for wider artistic horizons.

[3] Vasiliev became a regular guest principal at the American Ballet Theatre, La Scala and the Bolshoi.

Don Quixote - Marius Petipa, in the versions by Alexei Fadeyechev, Mikhail Messerer and Rudolph Nurejev Flames of Paris - Vasily Vainonen, in the versions by Alexei Ratmansky and Mikhail Messerer Le Corsaire - Marius Petipa, in the versions of Alexey Ratmansky and Mikhail Messerer La Bayadére - Marius Petipa, in 3 versions of Vakhtang Chabukiani, Natalia Makarova and Yuri Grigorovitch Spartacus - Yuri Grigorovitch Ivan The Terrible - Yuri Grigorovitch The Prodigal Son - Georges Balanchine The Sleeping Beauty - in the versions of Nacho Duato and Marius Petipa Giselle - Marius Petipa and in the versions of Yuri Grigorovitch, Vladimir Vasiliev The Nutcracker - Yuri Grigorovich Lost Illusions - Alexey Ratmansky La Fille Mal Gardé - Sir Frederick Ashton Romeo and Juliet - in 3 versions, of Sir Kenneth MacMillan, Sir Frederick Ashton and Nacho Duato The Bright Stream - Alexey Ratmansky Coppelia - Marius Petipa, in 2 versions of Sergei Vikharev and Enrique Martinez The Swan Lake - Marius Petipa, in versions of Derek Lane (Siegfried), Mikhail Messerer (Evil Sorcerer), Kevin MacKenzie (Rothbarth) La Sylphide - James Bournounville Laurencia - Vakhtang Chabukiani, version by Mikhail Messerer Notre-Dame - Roland Petit Cippollino - Genrikh Mayorov A Christmas Carol - Ivan Vasiliev Class Concert Halt de la Cavallerie L'Arlesiénne Le Jeune Homme et La Mort Labyrinth of Solitude Le Spectre de La Rose For 4 Jazzy Five Ko'D Mercy Passo Facada Mozart and Salieri Petroushka Sheherazade Shostakovitch Piano Concert Blind Affair Morphine Love is Everywhere Natasha's First Ball Rossini PDD Serenata PDD The Talisman PDD Underwood Kamarinskaya The Skydivers