Vera Pashennaya

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

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).

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"

References

External links

• Vera Pashennaya at IMDb

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