Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School

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Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School

Under the State Academic Maly Theatre
Location	Moscow , Russia 55°45′38″N 37°37′16″E / 55.760419°N 37.621151°E / 55.760419; 37.621151
Website	chepkin.maly.ru schepkin.maly.ru/eng

The Mikhail Semyonovich Shchepkin Higher Theatre School (Institute) is a drama school associated with the State Academic Maly Theatre in Moscow. It was established in 1809 by decree of Alexander I of Russia.

Since 1938, the school has been named after Mikhail Shchepkin, 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, where it remains to this day.

In 1943, the school received the status of a higher educational institution.

The rector of the school is Professor Boris Nikolaevich Lyubimov, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

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