Vasily Dmitriyevich Sipovsky (Russian: Василий Дмитриевич Сиповский) was a Russian Empire historian, journalist, editor, and pedagogue, personal history tutor for Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna and Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich.

Sipovsky was born on 8 May 1844 in Uman, and studied philosophy and history at the Saint Petersburg University.

Contributing regularly to Semya i Shkola, Russkaya Shkola, Mir Bozhy as well as Obrazovaniye, which he became an editor-in-chief of in 1876, Sipovsky left an extensive legacy, concerning mostly education in Russia, its current affairs and history.

[1] Sipovsky died in 1895, in village Lisino, nearby Tosno, and is interred in the Smolensky Cemetery.

His son Vasily Sipovsky (1872–1930) was a well-known Russian philologist.