Overview
{{Infobox university
|name = Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School
|image_name = Neglinnaya 6 - Shchepkin Theatre School.JPG
|image_size = 250px
|image_alt = M.S. Schepkin Higher Theatre School (Institute)
|caption = Under the State Academic Maly Theatre
|city = Moscow
|state = Russia
|coor =
|website = chepkin.maly.ru schepkin.maly.ru/eng
|footnotes =
}}
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.
History
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.
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