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| December-16-2009 |
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Ekaterina's Vorobyevsky contest!
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DEAR FRIENDS, OUR CONTEST IS OVER!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
We received lots of emails with absolutely correct answers! Names and emails of all the participants will be stored in our database and will be entered in our future draws!
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| AND THE WINNER IS: |
| Helen Park (San Diego, CA)
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QUESTION 1: |
The Russian river mentioned in the name of this tea set is the Moscow River.
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QUESTION 2: |
The size of the tea pot is 25.3 Oz or in European measurements it is 750 ml.
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QUESTION 3: |
In 1742 Elizabeth issued a law that allowed manufacturers to buy villages along with the people living in them to work for their factories. She did it because she was asked by Afanasy Grebenshikov, who claimed that this law was the a threat to porcelain manufacture due to insufficiency of peasants working for the manufacture. He needed more people but his request to buy a village was declined by the Government with the reference to this law of 1736 that forbade doing so. So, Elizabeth called this law off and let him buy peasants. However, this only lasted til 1762 when manufacturers were not allowed to buy people by villages again.
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QUESTION 4: |
The sizes of the dinner plates in this cobalt dinner set for six is 24 cm or 9.5".
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QUESTION 5: |
This decorative collectible plate is named after the Russian minister of Imperial court Dmitry Guriev. He was known as the supervisor of Imperial Lomonosov Porcelain Manufactory, as a member of an upper Chamber, then the third Minister of Finance of Russia. Oh and of course, his name is closely related to the famous Guriev porrige - Guryevskaya kasha! He is known to be the one who invented this Russian dessert.
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The name of the lake depicted on the plate by Tatiana Afanasyeva is Onega Lake and the dish is "Onega Lake District" dish.
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QUESTION 7: |
The man in the picture is Baron Ivan Cherkassov -- the Governor of her Majesty Empress Elizabeth's Cabinet. From what I read, one of his missions was supervising the work of the hired Christophe Hunger, known to the Empress as a porcelain production specialist and who was invited to Russia to develop a porcelain manufacture. Ivan Cherkasov is also known as the one who picked a spot on the left bank of the Neva River for construction of the future porcelain factory.
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QUESTION 8: |
The teapot is named after the Russian city of Novgorod.
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QUESTION 9: |
The set in the picture is a "Blue Lake" cup and saucer from the Vorobyevskiy series. SKU: 81.15329.00.1.
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QUESTION 10: |
The pattern that's being painted on the cup in the picture is a famous and loved by so many Lomonosov porcelain admireres - the cobalt net!
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| December-15-2009 | DEAR FRIENDS!
We want to thank all of you for your interest in Russian Imperial Porcelain which is a part of Russian Imperial Heritage and Russian Culture at large.
We decided to start a tradition to run a lottery amongst our most active customers - customers who showed their interest in our products and participated in the most of our contests. This draw will be held at the end of each year and 10 lucky winners will get little souvenirs for Christmas!
List of the winners December 10 of 2009
1. From-Poulsen Lilly; 2. Snegireff Sandi Lucas; 3. Medvedeva Natalya; 4. Jensen Susan; 5. No Sang; 6. Harvey Morgan; 7. Andronikova Irina; 8. Sergey Drakunov; 9. Gail Alguire; 10. Kimball Brian; |
| November-26-2009 | Coming soon "Best customers award"! 10 of our best customers will recieve an exquisite gift for Christmas! Drawing of the winners will be held on December 8 of 2009. All winners will be contacted by email and announce on our web site! |
| November-09-2009 | New Vorobyevsky Contest was lunched today!
 . Hurry up to answer the questions - time goes fast! Make yourself an exquisite gift for Christmas - Museum Quality Porcelain Cup & Saucer, generously decorated with 22K gold, 100% handpainted. |
| October-27-2009 | Hello our dear friends!
As we had promised a couple of months ago we started to publish chapters from the book “Russian Imperial Manufactory 1744-1904” written by Baron Von Korf in 1904. Baron Von Korf was the Director of Russian Imperial Porcelain Manufactory in the beginning of 20th century and it is under his supervision Russian Porcelain has regained it’s international recognition. We did not realize how exiting could be the history of a porcelain manufactory until we have started to translate this book. We hope all the porcelain lovers will enjoy reading this book.
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