Vera Pashennaya Explained

Vera Pashennaya
Birthname:	Vera Nikolayevna Pashennaya
Birth Date:	19 September 1887
Birth Place:	Moscow, Russian Empire
Death Place:	Moscow, Soviet Union
Occupation:	Actress, theater pedagogue
Alma Mater:	Moscow Theatrical School
Yearsactive:	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"

Notes and References

1. http://bse.sci-lib.com/article097863.html Николай Петрович Рощин-Инсаров
2. http://gapeenko.net/chronograph/4562-vera-pashennaya-i-teatr-ee-imeni.html Вера Пашенная и театр её имени
3. http://www.km.ru/kino/encyclopedia/pashennaya-vera-nikolaevna Вера Николаевна Пашенная