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!
AND THE WINNER IS:
Helen Park (San Diego, CA)
WIN "WINTER DAY" CUP AND SAUCER. ($159 value)
Museum quality, generously decorated with gold, hand painted Bone China. Artist VOROBYEVSKY
(Click here to find out more about Vorobyevsky porcelain)
ANSWERS OF THE WINNER:
QUESTION 1:
The Russian river mentioned in the name of this tea set is the Moscow River.
QUESTION 2:
The size of the tea pot is 25.3 Oz or in European measurements it is 750 ml.
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.
QUESTION 4:
The sizes of the dinner plates in this cobalt dinner set for six is 24 cm or 9.5".
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.
QUESTION 6:
The name of the lake depicted on the plate by Tatiana Afanasyeva is Onega Lake and the dish is "Onega Lake District" dish.
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.
QUESTION 8:
The teapot is named after the Russian city of Novgorod.
QUESTION 9:
The set in the picture is a "Blue Lake" cup and saucer from the Vorobyevskiy series. SKU: 81.15329.00.1.
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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