Vera Pashennaya

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

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

She joined the CPSU in 1954.

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) 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"