Vera Pashennaya

Vera Nikolayevna Pashennaya (Russian: Вера Николаевна Пашенная; 19 September 1887, Moscow – 28 October 1962, Moscow) was a Soviet Russian stage and film actress and pedagogue. People's Artist of the USSR (1937).

Vera Pashennaya
Vera Pashennaya with Alexander Yuzhin
Born	Vera Nikolayevna Pashennaya (1887-09-19)19 September 1887 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	28 October 1962(1962-10-28) (aged 75) Moscow, Soviet Union
Alma mater	Moscow Theatrical School
Occupation(s)	Actress, theater pedagogue
Years active	1907–1961

Biography

Vera Pashennaya was born to the family of the famous actor Nikolay Roshchin-Insarov (1861 — 1899, surname at birth being Pashenny).^[1] Her sister, actress Yekaterina Roshchina-Insarov, emigrated in 1919.

She joined the CPSU in 1954.^[2]

Filmography

• Polikushka (1922) as Akulina
• Wolves and Sheep (1953) as Murzavetskaya
• Ekaterina Voronina (1957) as Ekaterina's grandmother
• The Idiot (1958) as Yepanchina, General's wife

Awards and honors

• Honored Artist of the Republic (1925)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1937)^[3]
• Two Orders of Lenin (1937, 1949)
• Stalin Prize, 1st class (1943)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1957)
• Lenin Prize (1961)
• Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"