Wilhelm Paul Christian Nikolai von Helmersen (Russian: Василий Васильевич Гельмерсен, tr.

Vasiliy Vasil’evich Gel’mersen; August 23, 1873 – December 9, 1937) was a Baltic German artist and book illustrator.

He created illustrations to Eugene Onegin, War and Peace, Dead Souls, A Hero of Our Time, The Shot.

In 1910s Nikolay Lerner intended to publish an edition of Eugene Onegin illustrated by Helmersen, but this was not realized (most likely because of the World War and the Revolution).

In the Soviet period, another edition of Onegin with Helmersen's illustrations was prepared in the State Literary Museum to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Pushkin's death, but it was also canceled.