The topic of Victoria Peshkova’s conversation with the rector of the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute, Evgeny Knyazev is the Vakhtangov School, its history, methodology and fundamental principles in the view of modern theater education. The head of the institute talks about the specificities of the educational process and its directions.

The author talks with Kirill Krok, the director of the Evgeny Vakhtangov State Academic Theater, about the relationship between the Boris Shchukin Theater Institute and the Vakhtangov Theater. During the conversation, the main trends of the modern theater process, the training of actors and directors, and the formation of the troupe of one of the best theaters in the country are considered.

The essay is dedicated to the holiday of the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute – October 23, a day when the graduates of the university gather in the building on Bolshoi Nikolopeskovsky Lane to recall the time of studies, to share how their creative life is developing. The author describes the history of the holiday – peculiar “lyceum day”, which is dear to every alumnus of the Vakhtangov Theater School, gives interesting historical facts and examples.

The author analyzes the play The Lanins’ Estate by Boris Zaitsev, staged by Evgeny Vakhtangov at the Drama Studio and shown on March 26, 1914, probes the reasons for the failure of the first performance by the studio members, recreates the history of the production through the memories and notes of the participants and eyewitnesses of the premiere.

In the essay about Boris Zakhava, the author details the stages of the creative path of the famous Vakhtangovite, follower, and promoter of the teachings of Yevgeny Bogrotionovich Vakhtangov. Boris Zakhava played a vital role in founding the Yevgeny Vakhtangov Theater and the Theater School, which later received the name of Boris Shchukin. The author analyzes the methods used by the Vakhtangov Theater School and the formation of the acting training program by Zakhava. Special attention is paid to the directing activities of B.E. Zakhava and the creation, on his initiative, of the directing department at the B.V. Shchukin Theater School.

The author creates portraits of those who stood at the origins of the Vakhtangov movement in art and are inscribed in golden letters in Russian and world theater history. The article tells about the contribution to the development of theatrical art of the students and the followers of Evgeny Bogrationovich Vakhtangov: Ksenia Kotlubay, Cecilia Mansurova, Yuri Zavadsky, Anna Orochko, Vera Lvova, Leonid Shikhmatov, Boris Shchukin.

The author introduces the reader to the history of the formation of the Department of Musical Expression of the Actor (2003) at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute and emphasizes the critical role of music in the training andeducation of a modern artist and director. The article tells about the program Learning to be Artists, a series of master classes, Music of the Theater. The Theater of music, etc. The publisher’s attention is also focused on the specialization Artist of the Musical Theater, the first recruitment for which was carried out by the Institute in 2008. 

The publication provides a lengthy excursion into the history of the creation of the Department of Stage Speech (1939) of the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute. The author analyzes the methodology of teaching the disciplines Stage Speech and Artistic Words and discusses several generations of department teachers and their role in the educational process.

The article narrat  es the history of the educational theater of the Boris Shchukin Institute, which has been going on since 1939. Almost all generations of graduates of the institute have appeared on the stages of the Educational Theater (the Big Stage, the Griner Hall, the stage of the Shalyapin House, the New Stage). Here, the future famous actors Alexander Shirvindt, Andrei Mironov, Alexander Kalyagin, Yuri Bogatyrev, Sergei Makovetsky, Maria Aronova, Alexei Kravchenko, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Viktor Dobronravov and many others took their first steps. Several diploma performances included in the repertoire of the educational theater served as a reason for the opening of independent creative groups. Among them are the Taganka Theater, the National Theater of Moldova, and the Russian Theater in Ossetia.

The article traces the creative path of an outstanding master – the legendary actor of the Evgeny Vakhtangov Theater, Vasily Semenovich Lanovoy. The artist’s landmark roles in performances based on plays by A. Zheri, K. Gozzi, A.N. Arbuzov, M. Krlezhi, E.-E. Schmitt, and others, performances on the literary stage, participation in reading programs and concerts, and the leadership of the Department of Stage Speech at the Boris Shchukin Theater Institute introduce to the reader an actor who embodied the artistic method of E.B. Vakhtangov in his work.

The essay is dedicated to theatrical Moscow of the early 20th century, a vivid illustration of which is Arbat, which has become an attractive place for the modern capital to relax, immerse itself in theatrical life, visit the oldest ElectroTheater Khudozhestvenny (1909) and enjoya walk along the old streets and historical meeting places of poets, artists, directors, actors. Time travel allows you to recreate the atmosphere of Moscow when the drama studio of Yevgeny Vakhtangov opened, and the features of the new theater were determined.

The article is dedicated to the architect Nikolai Kruglov, the project’s author for building the theatre technical school in Moscow, where the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute is located. The author focuses on the tragic fate of the talented artist, who was accused of counterrevolutionary activities and sentenced to imprisonment in 1937 and rehabilitated only in 1957. According to the author, the name of the outstanding architect has yet to be returned to the pages of scientific works and encyclopedias.

The play The Architect (“I will die too ...”) is an educational work of students of the first recruitment of the Shchukin Institute’s master’s degree in the field of TheatricalDrama and Screenwriting. The Architect is a play about the life and fate of architect Nikolai Kruglov, the author of the project of the Theater College erected in Moscow, the house where the main building of the Boris Shchukin Institute is located.