Background
Baranovskaia, Vera was born in 1885.
Baranovskaia, Vera was born in 1885.
Actress in the theatre until 1915. Trained at the MKHAT. Acted in V. Pudovkin’s The End of St Petersburg (Konets Peterburga),
1927. From 1928 lived in Prague.
Moved to Paris where she died. She became a ‘non-person’ after her emigration, despite her powerful performance in Mother. AfterStalin’s death her name began to be mentioned again in the Soviet press.