Vasili Yakovlevich Eroshenko (Russian: Василий Яковлевич Ерошенко Ukrainian: Василь Якович Єрошенко) (12 January 1890 – 23 December 1952)[2] was a blind writer, translator, esperantist, linguist, traveler, poet and teacher.

In April 1914 Eroshenko, due to contacts with the Japanese Esperantists, left for Japan.

He studied massage in a school center for the blind in Tokyo, after learning their reputation in the practice.

In November 1917, upon learning about the Russian Revolution, he went to India and hoped to return to Russia from there.

British authorities then forbade him exit to his country and was placed under house arrest in Calcutta.

[5] He gave lectures to a university and a teacher's training school for women in Beijing on Russian literature and other themes.

From 1930 to 1932 he worked in a school for blind brush-makers in Nizhni Novgorod as a teacher in mathematics, Braille and the Russian language.

A year later he went back to Moscow to work as proof reader in a printing house.

In 1946-1948 he worked as an English language instructor in a school for the blind children in Moscow.