Vasily Medvedev is a character who appeared in the book "The Remnant" as the second-in-command to Steve Plank, a believer in Jesus Christ going under the alias of Pinkerton Stephens, at the Global Community detention center in Colorado. Vasily proudly accepted the "mark of loyalty" during the midpoint of the Tribulation, but later regretted it when he learned that accepting the mark and worshiping Nicolae Carpathia's image would condemn him to hell. When Steve as Pinkerton was forced as a Global Community employee to either take the "mark of loyalty" or be executed, Steve tried to get Vasily to kill him, but Vasily refused to do so, instead serving mostly to assist Pinkerton to the mark application facility where Pinkerton chose execution by guillotine over accepting the mark. Shortly afte