Lomonosov Porcelain

The Neva Porcelain Manufactory was founded in 1744 in St Petersburg by Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov, initially to supply the Russian Royal Family with fine porcelain.

In 1765, during the reign of Catherine the Great, it was renamed ‘The Imperial Porcelain Manufactory’. After the Russian Revolution in 1917, when the Bolsheviks took power, the Factory was nationalized and renamed the ‘State Porcelain Works’.

In 1925, on the 200th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences, it was renamed again in honour of the academy’s founder, Mikhail Lomonosov. It then became known as the Leningrad Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, abbreviated to LFZ.

After the collapse of the Soviet Era, the factory was privatised as the ‘Lomonosov Porcelain Factory’ but by 1999 the Russian government had nationalised the company.

It was sold to Nikolay Tsvetkov and Galina Tsvetkova in 2002, who reverted to the pre-Soviet name of the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory (or IPM) in 2005. The IPM is still producing high-quality porcelain and there is also a museum on-site displaying a collection of Russian porcelain spanning over 270 years.