Vera Streshneva

Movie - 1928, 2h 15m • as Catherine II

An adaptation of Pushkin's historical novel about the Pugachev's Rebellion in 1773–1774.

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Arina

The official Podkolesin is tired of his bachelor life, but at the same time he is afraid to disrupt his usual routine. His friend Kochkarev arranges a marriage between Podkolesin and the merchant's daughter Agafia Tikhonovna. It takes a lot of effort for Kochkarev to persuade his friend to go to his bride. But at the last moment, Podkolesin, frightened by the impending changes, runs away.

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Elena Gurova, his wife

Arriving on a resort muscovites - circus artist Gurov and professor Fedorov are forget the houses of passport. Girl-dispatch on mail, hurrying on an appointment, mixes up envelopes, that entails the row of the comic misunderstanding.

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as Galkina

Film adaptation of The Golovlyov Family ("Господа Головлёвы), a classic novel by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. In the mid-19th century old-fashioned estate based on serfdom laws and traditions, tough and shrewd Arina Petrovna tries her best to make her realm prosper and even expand – despite unwillingness of her husband and three of her four children to lend helping hands... Ten years on, serfdom abolished, and now Porfiry-Yudishka, the epitome of a corrupt, cruel hypocrite, becomes the heir to the estate. Dullness and horrors of life, spent in destroying everybody around him, finally makes him to slowly realize things went somehow wrong. Half-mad, apparently, he goes to the cemetery to "ask for forgiveness" from his mother Arina Petrovna, and dies somewhere along his way, his frozen corpse found the next day.