Vera Pashennaya

Vera Nikolayevna Pashennaya (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). 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"