Vera Schmidt (psychoanalyst)

Vera Schmidt

Vera Fedorovna Schmidt (27 July 1889 in Starokostiantyniv, Volhynian Governorate – 17 July 1937 in Moscow) was a Russian and later Soviet educationist and one of the leading figures in the psychoanalytic movement during the "Silver Age". After the Russian Revolution (1917) she directed a highly innovative nursery school run on psychoanalytic principles.