In 1916, she opened the first private ballet studio in the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and went on to teach many of the famous Georgian dancers including Dimitri and Irina Aleksidze, Maria Bauer, Soliko Virsaladze, Nino Ramishvili, Iliko Sukhishvili, Vakhtang Chabukiani, Elene Chikvaidze, Maria Kazinets, and Elene Gvaramadze.

Perini's students remembered their teacher as a sincere, impartial, exciting person who dedicated all her life to establishing and developing classical ballet in Tbilisi, and recall their childhood as bright and beautiful thanks to her.

Until 1937, the wing of this building served as workshop of Henryk Hryniewski, an artist, professor of the academy, and as Maria's ballet studio.

Perini was appointed as director, while Nicholas Sergeyev, ballet master at the Saint Petersburg Opera Theatre, was invited as pedagogue.

Exceptional was Vakhtang Chabukiani with his passion, technique and temperament, who definitely has bright future ahead.”In 1927, the arts department of the National Committee for Education initiated an evening dedicated to 30 years anniversary of Maria Perini's artistic and pedagogical work.

In 1937, Perini's son, Ferdinand Inochenz, who lived in Bryansk with his spouse and two kids, was exiled as part of the Great Purge.