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This article is devoted to the great Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky’s teaching at newly established (1919) institution Bauhaus to which he was invited by its founders after he had left Soviet Russia (1922). Kandinsky had serious previous academic experience: he had graduated from Moscow University where he studied economical statistics and made so deep success in his studies that after graduation he was recommended to teach in one of largest universities of Russia. He prefered the career of an artist but he never gave up his interest to theoretical knowledge and science. After his first period in Germany and after 1917 Revolution he took part in establishment of Academy of Artistic Sciences, he elaborated programs conjoining artistic and scientific forms of knowledge but he didn’t manage to turn his plans into reality. As other outstanding persons, for instance, as Roman Jackobson, also mentioned in this article, he was made to leave Soviet Russia and to continue his studies abroad. He moved to Germany that he knew after the first period and used the lucky chance of Walter Gropius’ invitation to join Bauhaus. Here he tried to use to teaching his academic, theoretical and methodological experience. Some essential details of this work the author exposes here basing on very interesting and important sources.