Vera Schmidt (psychoanalyst)
Vera Fyodorovna Schmidt or Shmidt (Russian: Вера Фёдоровна Шмидт; née Yanitskaya; 27 July 1889 – 17 July 1937) was a Russian and Soviet psychoanalyst and educationist. She was one of the leading figures in the psychoanalytic movement during the "Silver Age". After the 1917 Russian Revolution, she directed a highly innovative nursery school run on psychoanalytic principles.