BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER I

Early in his reign Alexander I reorganised the Imperial Porcelain Factory, appointing as its director the Minister of Economic Affairs, Count D.A. Gur'ev. A new form of decoration developed with transfer-printing techniques, copying well-known paintings and drawings. The views printed on these plates were taken from a series of views of St. Petersburg and its environs engraved between 1801 and 1813 by S. Galaktionov, K. and I. Cheskii, A. Ukhtomskii and I. Telegin, including four of Gatchina, three of Kamennoi Ostrov, eight of Pavlovsk and eight of Petergof.