Vera Stroyeva

{{Short description|Soviet film director (1903–1991)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}

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| name = Vera Stroyeva

| birth_name = Vera Pavlovna Richter

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1903|9|21}}

| birth_place = Kiev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1991|8|26|1903|9|21}}

| death_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR

| occupation = Film director, screenwriter

| yearsactive = 1927–1983

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Vera Pavlovna Stroyeva ({{langx|ru|link=no|Ве́ра Па́вловна Стро́ева}}, (née Richter);{{Cite web |title=Строева, Вера Павловна |url=https://www.peoplelife.ru/273529 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520182153/https://www.peoplelife.ru/273529 |archive-date=May 20, 2023 |access-date=May 20, 2023 |website=PeopleLife.Ru}} 21 September 1903 – 26 August 1991) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter.{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema|author=Peter Rollberg|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|year=2016|place=US|isbn=978-1442268425|pages=712–713}} Between 1926 and 1983, she directed fifteen films and wrote ten screenplays. Her film adaptation of Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov was nominated for a Golden Lion at the 16th Venice International Film Festival and screened out of competition at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.{{cite web |url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/491/year/1987.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Boris Godunov |access-date=24 July 2009|work=festival-cannes.com}}{{cite book |last1=Rollberg |first1=Peter |title=Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet cinema |date=7 November 2008 |publisher=Scarecrow Press, 2008 |isbn=978-0810862685}} Many of her films are musicals or adaptations of operas and feature heavy influence from socialist realism.

Stroyeva was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples, Order of the Badge of Honor, {{ill|Honored Worker of the Arts of the Kazakh SSR|ru|Заслуженный деятель искусств Казахской ССР}}, and People's Artist of the RSFSR.

She died in Moscow on 26 August 1991.{{Cite web |title=Строева Вера Павловна |url=https://cinema.mosfilm.ru/persons/29564/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://megalodon.jp/2023-0521-0316-00/https://cinema.mosfilm.ru:443/persons/29564/ |archive-date=May 20, 2023 |access-date=May 20, 2023 |website=Онлайн-кинотеатр "Мосфильма" |language=Russian}}