Alexandrinsky Theatre
On Badayev's recommendation, Bogdanova-Chesnokova joined the Russian Drama School at the Alexandrinsky Theatre headed by and Vera Michurina-Samoilova. In her audition, before , Bogdanova-Chesnokova sang and read a monologue of Plyushkin from the "Dead Souls" of Nikolai Gogol. Bogdanova-Chesnokova was accepted and joined the class of the actor, .