About how Vasilevsky Island in St. Petersburg got its name, there are a lot of legends .  Many years before the founding of the city of Petra, the island was called Hirvisaari (in Finnish - Elk Island), at the same time called him and Russian style - Vasiliev .  Where it has gone the name - it is not known, although there is a legend linking it with the name of the fisherman who lived here, who was called Basil and Novgorod mayor Basil Seleznyov, Basil Casimir Basil Ananyin .  One of the beliefs associated with the name of Major General, Major Life Guards Regiment, Commander of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky Vasily Dmitrievich Korchmin (born before the 1671-1729 biennium) .  It housed his pack when he was still just a scorer .  King, sending orders and dispatches Vasily Korchmin, instead of the address wrote: "Vasily Island" .  With the start of construction of the city, Peter I decided to do on Vasilyevsky Island economic, administrative and cultural center of the new capital of the Russian state .  However, this project did not materialize .  City center moved to the Admiralty .  And the arrow of Vasilevsky Island, at the time when Peter and Paul Fortress was erected on the orders of Peter I, placed an artillery battery that was supposed to protect the city from the Neva .  The commander was appointed lieutenant bombardirsky company Basil Korchmin .  After his death, the legend was born that Vasilevsky Island began to call by its name . 

Vasily Korchmin was adherent and a close ally of Tsar Peter I, a key figure in Peter's army. It is this remarkable man is the creator of the artillery and cavalry, and the ship as a separate kind of troops. VD Korchmin, being the king's chief engineer, was the inventor of military missiles and a flamethrower, was the acknowledged master of martial affairs and fortification. With its military talent, he was a direct participant in almost all the battles of the time, had three wounded. Basil was Korchmin military intelligence, the main gunner (the organizer of fireworks), a beautiful pyrotechnics, the author of grandiose ideas, researchers, hydrography, industrialist, established businesses that worked only on the defense of the country.

In 2003, in the courtyard of the house №34 on the 7th line of Vasilevsky Island, close to the metro station Vasilyevskaya, the opening of the monument to Vasily Dmitrievich Korchmin. The authors of the monument using the collective image of the hero of the time of Peter.

The decision to install the sculpture was made in 2001, the territorial administration. Among the students and teachers of art and architecture of St. Petersburg was a competition. Reached the final four of the most interesting projects: Work P. Ignatiev, which viewed the motives Dymkovo toys, Sergeeva, whose associate of Peter holding a cat G.Lukyanova who portrayed V. Korchmin sitting on the trunk of a gun and A. Buslaeva - legendary hero was in the boat, holding a paddle. Competition Commission has opted for a joint work of two students of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts S. Sergeyev and G. Lukyanov - VD Korchmin sits with a pipe in his hand, gesturing for passers-by to come closer.

At the base of the monument, on the left medallion stamped the words "Gift of St. Petersburg in honor of the 300th anniversary of CJSC" M-Industry ", the president M. Behbudov, CEO S. Zagudalin." On the opposite side at the same medallion - "Basil Korchmin Bombardier, the hero of the legend of the origin of the name" Vasilevsky Island. '"