 Vasily Vyazemsky was born in December 1775 in the village of Klimovo, which at that time was part of the Kolomna Uyezd (later Bronnitsky Uyezd, now the territory of Ozyorsky District, Moscow Oblast).He was from nobility and his father was a court councilor.He lost his parents at a young age, after which his elder sister and her husband took care of him.