[2] The idea of the studio-school was expressed for the first time at the meeting of the leaders of Moscow Art Theater on March 21, 1943.

[3] It was the last will of the director and pedagogue Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, who died of a heart attack a month later, April 25, 1943.

The following day (April 26, 1943), a special resolution of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was published, which contained a clause relating to the creation of the studio school.

In 1987, a new branch for theater painters was opened under the direction of Valeri Yakovlevich Levental.

During 1989, a new department for artist-technologists for stage costume was opened under the direction of the People's Artist of Russia Eleonora Petrovna Maklakova.