The Mikhail Semyonovich Shchepkin Higher Theatre School (Institute) is a

drama school A drama school, stage school or theatre school is an undergraduate and/or graduate school or department at a college or university; or a free-standing institution (such as the Drama section at the Juilliard School); which specializes in the pr ...

associated with the State Academic Maly Theatre in

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. It was established in 1809 by decree of

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History

Since 1938, the school has been named after

Mikhail Shchepkin , birth_date = , birth_place = Krasnoe, Kursk Province, Russian Empire , death_date = (aged 64) , death_place = Yalta, Russian Empire , resting_place = , occupation = Actor , language = Russian , nationality = Russian , period ...

, a prominent Russian actor and college teacher in the period from 1830 until his death in 1863. With the direct assistance of the Shchepkin School in 1863 received a building on

Neglinnaya Street Neglinnaya Street (Russian: Неглинная улица) is a street inside the Garden Ring of Moscow, Russia. It runs from the Bolshoi Theatre to the Trubnaya Square. The street was paved over the underground Neglinnaya River in 1819. Throu ...

, where it remains to this day. In 1943, the school received the status of a higher educational institution. Shchepkin Plaque on Wall of Theatre College in Moscow

Shchepkin Plaque on Wall of Theatre College in Moscow

The rector of the school is Professor Boris Nikolaevich Lyubimov,

Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: link=no, Заслуженный артист Российской Федерации, ''Zasluzhenny artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii'') is an honorary title in the Russian Federation. The title is ...

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* * Drama schools in Russia Performing arts education in Russia Cultural heritage monuments of regional significance in Moscow {{Russia-school-stub