In 1932 the Studio got the status of a secondary school, then in 1939 it was given the name of Boris Shchukin, Vakhtangov’s best-loved student.
Like most drama schools, Drama Centre places a particular emphasis on the work of Stanislavski,also training students in improvisation through the Vakhtangov and Lecoq traditions.
Bourganov built the Turandot Fountain next to the Vakhtangov Theater on the Old Arbat.
Another famous production directed by Vakhtangov in the same year was S. Ansky's "The Dybbuk" with the Habimah theater troupe.
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His most notable production was Turandot by Carlo Gozzi, which has played at the Vakhtangov Theatre ever since 1922 (the year of his death).