Enemy at the Gates portrays the character Vasily Zaytsev, and is based off which book?
Vasily Zaytsev Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev; 23 March 1915 – 15 December 1991) was a Soviet sniper and a Hero of the Soviet Union during World War II. Prior to 10 November, he killed 32 Axis soldiers with a standard-issue rifle. Between 10 November 1942 and 17 December 1942, during the Battle of Stalingrad, he killed 225 enemy soldiers, including 11 snipers.
Vasily Kelsiyev Vasily Ivanovich Kelsiyev (Russian: Васи́лий Ива́нович Ке́льсиев , 28 June 1835, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, — 14 October 1872, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian journalist, ethnographer. historian, translator and political activist, close associate of Alexander Hertzen in the early 1860s.