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).
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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"