Vera Alexandrovna Tiscenko (28 August 1902 – 13 October 1983) was a Russian actress of Polish descent and member of the Moscow Art Theatre who lived through four revolutions: the 1905 Russian Revolution, the Russian Revolution (1917), the Spanish Civil War, the Direct Action Day & Indian Independence Movement, and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947 (also known as the First Kashmir War). In India, her divorce from her first husband, Eugene Tiscenko, has achieved the status of a constitutional precedent that has been deployed repeatedly by the Supreme Court of India.[1] She was the second wife of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy who was the last Prime Minister of Bengal until the Partition of India (April 1946- August 1947) and subsequently became the fifth Prime Minister of Pakistan (1956–1957). They had a son Robert Ashby was born as Rashid Suhrawardy, who worked in the British and American film industry.