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A kind of symbol besieged Leningrad became the legendary “Cobalt Grid”. Sets in white and blue style first appeared in 1944 and became the hallmark of the Imperial Porcelain Factory. The pattern was invented by Leningrad artist Anna Yatskevich precisely during the years of the siege. Dmitry Kopytov will tell you how the idea for the drawing came about.

Valentina Semakhina has been applying the same simple design to cups, teapots and saucers for almost 40 years. Every day he hand-paints 80 porcelain items. The woman was not at all tired of the monotonous work. The painter proudly says that her sets now decorate kitchens all over the world. Business card Imperial Porcelain Factory - blue “Cobalt mesh” on dishes first appeared in 1944. The 5-piece set was painted in a cold but attractive northern color by Leningrad artist Anna Yatskevich. Several photographs of her have been preserved in the factory museum.

Alexander Kucherov, advisor general director Imperial Porcelain Factory: “This is a photograph from 1945. Here she is already captured with two state awards: the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad", which she received in 1943, and the "Order of the Red Banner", which she received in the summer of 1944. “I believe that the Military Order of the Red Banner is a very high assessment of her work.”

The military order is fragile by nature, but the intelligent woman received it, of course, not for the new kind porcelain painting. She spent all 900 days of the blockade in her native Leningrad, at the factory. She refused to go with her colleagues to the Urals for evacuation. Victory was approaching. In my own way.

Alexander Kucherov, advisor to the general director of the Imperial Porcelain Factory: “On the pier next to the factory there was the destroyer “Ferocious.” A cable was stretched to it, life was glimmering on it. It had to be disguised. They stretched the nets, spread porcelain paints, and camouflaged him. It was closed. Not a single shell hit the plant territory. He merged with the Neva water.”

We managed to survive the terrible years only thanks to the work we loved. And books. There was no time to evacuate the factory library. The literature collected in piles remained lying in the snow-covered railway carriages. Every day Anna Yatskevich brought books back on a sled. In 1943, after the blockade was broken, an art laboratory was reopened at the plant. And a year later, the first “Cobalt mesh” appeared on porcelain dishes.

Alexander Kucherov, advisor to the general director of the Imperial Porcelain Factory: “No one can say what exactly formed the basis of this drawing. Perhaps this was inspired by the windows of the besieged city, since her mother lived here, her sister lived here, they died in 1942, she buried them. Perhaps it’s the crossing of these paper strips.”

In Leningrad, windows were sealed with paper tapes so that the glass would not crack or fly out due to bombing. Footage from the blockade chronicles shows that white crosses then appeared on almost all the central streets of the city on the Neva.

Dmitry Kopytov, correspondent: “The version that the famous “Cobalt Grid” was invented by its creator, remembering the days of the siege, is confirmed by the fact: the originally painted cups and teapots were of such a gray-white color, which is quite in the tone of the Leningrad winter.”

There are other versions of the appearance of the “Cobalt Grid”, also related to the blockade.

Natalya Bordey, head of the press service of the Imperial Porcelain Factory: “There is a theory that the artist Anna Yatskevich went to the Neva during the blockade years in winter to make an ice hole in the river in order to have water on hand in case of a fire at the factory. From hunger, from fatigue, cracks in the ice, golden snowflakes in the bright rays of the sun - everything crossed in her imagination and this inspired her “Cobalt Mesh” decor.”

For the first time, a similar mesh on teapots and cups of the plant appeared under Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. The ornament was created by master Dmitry Vinogradov. But the stripes were pink then. The porcelain factory received several prestigious medals for the “Cobalt Mesh”. Nowadays, more than a hundred types of tableware are made here in the blue and white style. Since the 70s, the whole world has learned about the unusual Russian ornament. At the Russian Embassy in Paris, guests are still treated to meals using mesh dishes. Your usual Blue colour Cobalt is acquired after firing at a temperature of more than a thousand degrees. After the first, so-called gold flies are applied. True, it does not begin to shine immediately.

Alexandra Gorokhova, painter and stamper at the Imperial Porcelain Factory: “This black puddle is a gold-containing preparation, 12 percent gold. After firing it begins to sparkle, before firing appearance unsightly".

It is difficult to fake the technology, although craftsmen from China have tried several times. The secret is that the painting is underglaze, self made. Its author, Anna Yatskevich, had no heirs left after the war. The niece, who also worked at the porcelain factory, died shortly after the artist herself. But their business is still alive. And thousands of owners of the legendary sets with cobalt mesh considered and still consider this dish to be a kind of symbol of the Leningrad Victory.

Correspondent

Dmitry Kopytov

March 5th, 2018 , 05:40 am

Not everyone knows that by storing Leningrad porcelain dishes with the famous “Cobalt Mesh” pattern in our cabinets and sideboards, we keep the memory of the besieged days of Leningrad... The “Cobalt Mesh” pattern is famous and recognizable all over the world. This exquisite combination of deep blue and snow-white is used for sets, tea pairs, and dining sets. The dishes decorated with cobalt mesh are suitable for serving tables at the most special events. The embodiment of simplicity, elegance and some kind of unobtrusive, but unconditional solemnity - the main distinctive features ornament.
It looks really stylish and expensive.
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Artist Anna Adamovna Yatskevich
This painting was born at the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (LFZ) in 1944 and became its signature pattern. It was invented by Anna Adamovna Yatskevich, a porcelain painting artist and the author of the famous LFZ logo.


Anna Yatskevich working on a vase for the XVIII Congress of the All-Union Communist Party of Belarus (1939)
A native of Leningrad, who buried her sister and mother who died of hunger, Anna Yatskevich lived throughout the blockade in her hometown; applied camouflage paint to ships. One day, returning home in the evening, Anna saw a strange picture: crossed air defense searchlights reflected from the cross-sealed windows, forming a beautiful geometric pattern in the form of a grid.


What was the victorious year of 1945 like for Anna Yatskevich? The city was recovering after the war.
People returned to peaceful life. I wanted to believe that everything terrible, all the losses were in the past. That the winter cold that already shackles your hands will not return, that life will be well-fed, comfortable, and most importantly, peaceful. Everyone has their own cemetery of loved ones behind them. Probably, Anna, when sketching the famous “grid”, knew that she would not be able to forget her losses, loved ones who died during the siege, windows taped crosswise...
Golden stars are their souls, frozen forever in the dark frosty sky. Or maybe hope for the best, leading the way.


In 1945, the LFZ art laboratory resumed its work. Modest, inconspicuous Anna Adamovna continued to work. I painted vases and sets and came up with new patterns. She was one of the authors of the monumental “Victory” vase - for the first anniversary of our Victory over the Nazis. It was during this difficult post-war time that a reminiscent mesh pattern appeared on porcelain. The LFZ began producing sets with such paintings immediately after the victory in the war. The first sample was in a different color, but a year later Yatskevich played with her pattern in a new way, creating that same cobalt painting. The “Tulip” tea set was the first in the series. Experts today are confident that the cobalt-white ornament and the refined shape of the tulip make up a union of striking beauty.


Tea set “Tulip”
Material............................Hard porcelain
Type of product........................Tea service
Shape........................Tulpa n
Author of the form.....................Yakovleva S.E.
Type of pattern........................Cobalt mesh
Author of the drawing......................Yatskevich A.A.
Weight, g.............................3887
Number of items.........6
Number of persons...............20
The artist was inspired by the dishes of the imperial court, painted with exquisite cobalt script. Although there is evidence that her set, which later became famous, was originally gold.


Elizabeth Petrovna's Own Service in the Hermitage


Empress Elizabeth Petrovna's own table and dessert service. Subject composition. Russia, St. Petersburg. Nevskaya Porcelain Manufactory (since 1765 - Imperial Porcelain Factory)


service “Own” of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna in the Hermitage
The “Own” service, made in the mid-18th century for Empress Elizabeth Petrovna by master Dmitry Vinogradov, played its role -
founder of the Russian porcelain school.
Cobalt pencil
One day, unusual pencils produced by the Sacco and Vanzetti factory were brought to the LFZ. The pencil core was paint for painting porcelain. The factory's artists tried it, but did not appreciate the new product. And only Anna Yatskevich liked the new pencil. She decided to master the technology and painted her first “Cobalt Mesh” set with it. Today, not all researchers believe in this version, but that copy of the service is still kept on display in the Russian Museum.


By the way, Yatskevich is the author of another unusual pattern - the signature monogram of the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, which the factory uses to brand its products even today.

“Cobalt Mesh” was published in wide circulation in 1950. The pattern turned out to be very beautiful, everyone liked it and was, so to speak, adopted. But great fame did not come to the artist - however, she was awarded the Order of the Red Star for her innovation.





The “Cobalt Mesh” was applied only with a brush; special grooves were made on the porcelain itself so that the lines were even. The final version of the painting was performed by Anna Adamovna’s student, Olga Dolgushina.






Unfortunately, Anna Yatskevich did not live to see the triumph of her pattern. Her health, undermined by the blockade, was not enough for her to live a long life. She, like many siege survivors, died soon after the war, never knowing that her drawing had become a symbol of Russian porcelain...
Prestigious victory
In 1958, the World Porcelain Exhibition took place in Brussels. LFZ brought a huge collection to it. A line of products was also presented that were not specially prepared for the exhibition; the purpose of these things here was different: to show the breadth of the assortment.







And suddenly the service from this line with “Cobalt mesh” received the main award - a gold medal for its pattern and shape. Thus, the mesh pattern, reminiscent of the siege, became the most recognizable symbol of the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory.



The Imperial Porcelain Factory, founded in 1744 in St. Petersburg by order of the daughter of Peter the Great, Empress Elizabeth, became the first porcelain factory in Russia and the third in Europe.


Service with the monogram of Catherine II. Imperial Porcelain Factory. 1780 g


a dish from the service ordered by Catherine the Great for her favorite Count Grigory Orlov with his monogram. Imperial Porcelain Factory, 1763-1770. Decor project - G. Kozlov


Cup with saucer and lid with the monogram of Empress Maria Feodorovna, wife of Paul I. Imperial Porcelain Factory, period of the reign of Paul I, 1796-1801. Has no analogues in Russian museum collections


The following service reflects the heyday of the Imperial Porcelain Factory in the first third of the 19th century, when the factory produced large ceremonial services for the palaces of the House of Romanov. The “Alexandria” service was first made for the wife of Nicholas I, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna.


Imperial Porcelain Factory, “Cottage” service, “Alexandria” form
(1827-1829)
It was here that the talented Russian scientist D.I. Vinogradov (1720-1758) discovered the secret of making “white gold”. For the first time in the history of ceramics, he compiled a scientific description of porcelain production, close to the latest concepts of ceramic chemistry. The porcelain created by Vinogradov was not inferior in quality to Saxon, and in the composition of the mass prepared from domestic raw materials, it was close to Chinese.


Service of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich with the monogram of VKKN.
Imperial Porcelain Factory 1848


More items from the service of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich with the monogram “VKKN” (Konstantinovsky service). Russia, Saint-Petersburg. Imperial Porcelain Factory. 1848. Project by F. G. Solntsev. Porcelain; polychrome overglaze painting, gilding, circling


A service with paintings based on Raphael's Loggias in the Vatican (based on a sketch by Vivan Bose). St. Petersburg, Imperial Porcelain Factory. 1861 Porcelain; underglaze coating, overglaze painting, paste, gilding. Exhibited at the State Historical Museum.


Coffee service "Russian Ballet" Imperial Porcelain Factory.
Saint Petersburg.

Confectura with seven rosettes on bronze branches. Russia, Saint-Petersburg. Imperial Porcelain Factory. Mid-19th century. Porcelain; polychrome overglaze painting, gilding
For most of its history, the Imperial Porcelain Factory supplied porcelain exclusively to the royal court. Today, the company produces fine fine porcelain, porcelain sets and porcelain figurines, and is the only manufacturer of bone china in Russia. Each piece is handmade and hand-painted, and plated with a generous amount of 916 gold. All products of the Imperial Porcelain Factory are stamped with the original factory seal, guaranteeing their 100% authenticity.


Gothic service. Russia, Saint-Petersburg. Imperial Porcelain Factory. 1832

banquet dining and dessert service of Grand Duke Alexander Nikolaevich. Reconstruction of the set table. Russia, St. Petersburg. Imperial Porcelain Factory


Cabinet service items. It is from the period of Catherine’s reign that examples of antique porcelain from Russia date back, the most highly valued in our time at world auctions.


Reconstruction of a set table in the Hermitage. Russia, St. Petersburg. Imperial Porcelain Factory


Porcelain collection in the Hermitage
Imperial Porcelain Factory - a unique phenomenon. One of the few surviving factories that managed to survive the cataclysms of revolutions and wars, entire historical eras, and at the same time for almost three centuries. Its products - artistic porcelain - are leaders in Russia in terms of the time of their origin, quality and significant contribution to Russian and world culture.

The plant's products, with their best examples of decorative and applied art, won high awards at international exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Brussels, and Vienna. They are represented in the collections of the world's largest museums and in private collections. They fight for the right to own them at the prestigious international auctions Sotheby's and Christie's.





The artistic reputation of imperial porcelain increased significantly after the collection of the factory museum, which includes samples of the factory's products from the mid-18th century to contemporary works by artists, came under the patronage of the State Hermitage, and the museum, while remaining at the factory, became a branch of the world treasury of culture.












Cobalt mesh pattern in contemporary art
The dark blue ornament does not lose its relevance today. The LFZ plant has exclusive rights to it. Today, the “Cobalt mesh” pattern is the epitome of exquisite Russian porcelain. Dishes for tea parties and formal dinners, vases and souvenirs, cups with exquisite paintings are famous throughout the world.





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By keeping porcelain cups, saucers and teapots with the famous “Cobalt Mesh” pattern in our cabinets, sideboards and shelves, we keep a very unusual reminder of the days of the siege of Leningrad.

This delicate, cool painting was “born” at the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory in Leningrad (today it is called Imperial) in 1944, and today has become its signature pattern. It was invented by Anna Adamovna Yatskevich (1904-1952), a young specialist and porcelain painting artist. In the thirties, Anna Adamovna graduated from the Leningrad Art and Industrial College, began working at a factory and devoted twenty years to this work. During her lifetime, she was not a famous artist - the cobalt pattern was a huge success after Yatskevich’s death. But at first it was not cobalt, but gold - and so the first batch of services was released. But after looking critically at the products, Anna Adamovna replaced the gold with blue and painted a tea set from the Tulip company in a blue tone.
There is an opinion that the artist’s idea of ​​the net was inspired by an ancient service, which in the mid-eighteenth century was made for Empress Elizabeth Petrovna by Dmitry Vinogradov himself, the founder of porcelain production in Russia. Nicholas the First also had a similar set - it was made by order of the Austrian Emperor. However, the similarities in these “related” paintings are very distant.

In addition, Anna Adamovna herself spoke differently about the creation of the “Cobalt Grid”. Born in Leningrad, she spent the entire blockade in her hometown. And throughout the blockade she worked at her favorite factory. A young woman who buried her sister and mother who died of hunger (her father died long before the war), she lived on the Fontanka Embankment. Before the war, Anna graduated from the 34th Soviet Unified Labor School, then from a technical school. In addition to her profession as a porcelain artist, she was qualified as a designer of books and posters. The internship took place in the city of Volkhov. Then she was sent to the Leningrad plant, where at that time an art laboratory was organized. A modest, hardworking, exemplary worker, Anna Adamovna did not take advantage of the opportunity to evacuate. Remained in Leningrad. She worked on ship camouflage using ordinary porcelain paints left in stock at the plant. How you must master your art in order to use a brush to make huge ships invisible to the enemy!
The windows of Leningrad houses taped crosswise once attracted the attention of Anna Adamovna. Either the spotlight somehow illuminated them in a special way, or the evening sun, only the geometric pattern suddenly seemed beautiful and strict to Anna, and she came up with the idea of ​​painting porcelain...
In 1943, the art laboratory began to resume its work. And in difficult times of war, this pattern-reminder, pattern-frost, pattern-hope appeared. First, the artist made it with a special cobalt pencil, the core of which was porcelain paint. The factory workers did not like this pencil: the pattern was convex and lay unevenly. Only Anna Adamovna took up the new product. True, later “Cobalt mesh” began to be applied with ordinary paints.

The pattern turned out to be very beautiful, everyone liked it and was, so to speak, adopted. But great fame did not come to the artist - however, she was awarded the Order of the Red Star for her innovation. Modest, inconspicuous Anna Adamovna continued to work. I painted vases and sets and came up with new patterns. She was one of the authors of the monumental “Victory” vase - for the first anniversary of our Victory over the Nazis. She masterfully executed portraits on porcelain - for example, a portrait of Kirov on a teapot from the Moscow Metro service.

The life of the artist was concentrated in her work, in her niece Muse Izotova, who worked here, and in her colleagues. Her colleagues loved her. So, in August 1945, Anna Adamovna received a letter from the artist of the Vorobyovsky plant, who left the NKVD camp: “....I was especially pleased and I am grateful to you for the truly human participation that you, Protopopova and many other laboratory comrades took when I was in the hospital. I will never forget such an attitude, especially after three years in captivity, where I drank a full cup of suffering - hunger, cold and exploitation. I am very pleased that you have made a number of successes in art. Try, try, success is achieved at the cost of great creative effort and labor. I am amazed at the courage with which you endured inhuman suffering, excruciating hunger and the cold of the blockade, and especially you, who was always weak and pale. But now you are on the path to happiness, which I sincerely wish for you...”

In March 1946, Anna Adamovna was awarded the medal “For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War.” Patriotic War" She also had a medal “For the Defense of Leningrad”.
And “Cobalt Mesh” was published in wide circulation in 1950. It was applied only with a brush; special grooves were made on the porcelain itself to make the lines even. The final version of the painting was performed by Anna Adamovna’s student Olga Dolgushina.

The artist Yatskevich had poor health - who among the survivors of the siege could boast of it? And every year Anna Adamovna went to the Caucasus, to New Athos. I went for health, for the hot sun, for the warm southern air. But who among us knows where good luck is found and where trouble hides? It was there, in the Caucasus, that the artist caught a cold. And in 1952, at the forty-eighth year of her life, she died....

And in 1958, the World Porcelain Exhibition took place in Brussels. The Leningrad plant brought a huge collection of its best products. And the line of current products, so to speak, was presented - mainly teaware. It was not specially prepared for the exhibition; the purpose of these things here was different: to show the breadth of assortment, but not to amaze with artistic skill. And suddenly the service with “Cobalt mesh” received the main award - a gold medal for the pattern and shape (and the shape was invented by Serafima Yakovleva). Soon the pattern was awarded the “USSR Quality Mark,” which was extremely honorable. And his triumphal march across the country began...

Anna Adamovna has another drawing, perhaps no less famous than the “cobalt mesh,” only differently. This is the logo of the plant - LFZ. It is also made in blue tones with golden touches. And it is known to everyone who has at least one item made at this factory. He is the only drawing by Anna Adamovna that she did not sign. On other works she put the mark “A. Yatskevich” and the date

Among the many porcelain decors and various patterns, one of the most famous and recognizable is “cobalt mesh”. This painting, which first decorated porcelain in 1945, has already become a classic of decorative art and a signature, distinctive sign of the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (Imperial Porcelain Factory), by whose master it was created. The famous pattern was invented by artist Anna Yatskevich. True, at first it was not cobalt, but gold. The LFZ began producing sets with this pattern immediately after the war, in 1945. A year later, Yatskevich interpreted her pattern and created the famous cobalt mesh from gold mesh. She used it for the first time to paint a tea set in the “Tulip” shape by Serafima Yakovleva. In 1958, Cobalt Mesh, a simple and elegant pattern, took the world by storm. This year the World Exhibition took place in Brussels, where the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory presented its best creations, including objects decorated with this painting. The service with “Cobalt Mesh” was not specially prepared for the exhibition, it was simply part of the plant’s assortment, and the award was all the more unexpected for LFZ - the service received a gold medal for its pattern and shape.

Anna Adamovna Yatskevich (1904-1952), graduate of the Leningrad Art and Industrial College (1930). She worked at the LFZ from 1932 to 1952. Porcelain painting artist. Fame came to her as the creator of the famous “Cobalt Grid” only after her death. She never learned about the triumph of her painting in Brussels.

How did the “cobalt mesh” pattern come about?
There is a version that the famous Yatskevich pattern was inspired by the “Own” service, which was made for Empress Elizabeth Petrovna by Dmitry Vinogradov, the creator of porcelain in Russia, back in the mid-18th century. Also, one of the festive services of the IFZ, which supplied porcelain to the imperial court of Nicholas I, was the “Cobalt Service”. This service was a repetition of its more famous predecessor with the same name. It was once made at the Vienna manufactory by special order of the Austrian Emperor Joseph II. The monarch decided to present such a gift to the Russian Emperor Pavel Petrovich and his wife Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna, who were visiting him.

To win over the heir to the Russian throne, Joseph II decided to present a luxurious porcelain set as a gift. The model by which the “Cobalt Service” was created at the Vienna Manufactory was another service - a product of the Sèvres Manufactory, which in 1768 Louis XV presented to the Danish King Christian VII. The Viennese service was decorated with gold openwork painting “cailloute” (French - to pave with cobblestones) on a cobalt background, bouquets of polychrome flowers in reserves, framed with gold rocailles.
Paul I appreciated the luxurious gift of Joseph II, as evidenced by the fact that when he went to war with Sweden, he bequeathed it to his mother-in-law. However, the emperor returned from the war in good health and continued to own the “Cobalt Service”. In the 1840s, the “Cobalt Service” was located in Gatchina, in the Priory Palace, and it was then that it was replenished at the IFZ.
In 1890, the “Cobolt Service” with the mark of the Vienna Manufactory in its entirety was sent to the Winter Palace. Part of the service remained in the Gatchina Palace, the one that was made at the IFZ. Today, 73 items from the famous service made in Vienna have survived to this day.
Comparing the “Cobalt Mesh” by Yatskevich and the painting of the “Own” service, experts consider the similarities to be very distant - the artist’s mesh is more intricate, made with underglaze cobalt. At the intersections of the blue lines, the grid is decorated with 22-karat gold stars, which gives the painting even more nobility and elegance. The “Own” service has small pink flowers in the knots of the gold mesh.

There is another interesting moment in the history of the creation of this decor; it is connected with the pencil with which the artist Anna Yatskevich applied her famous pattern to porcelain. In those days, the LFZ came up with the idea of ​​using a so-called cobalt pencil. Of course, the pencil was an ordinary one, made at the Sacco and Vanzetti factory, but its core was porcelain paint. The factory’s artists didn’t like the pencil, only Anna Yatskevich decided to try the new product and painted the first copy of the “Cobalt Mesh” service for them. Whether this is true or not, this copy of the service is now on display at the Russian Museum.
“Cobalt mesh,” according to experts, looked very advantageous on the “Tulip” shaped service; it successfully played off it and gave it solemnity. Subsequently, this painting began to decorate LFZ (IFZ) and other products: coffee and table sets, cups, vases and souvenirs. By the way, Anna Yatskevich also made another contribution to the development of the porcelain factory - she is the author of the famous LFZ logo (1936), which is depicted on all products of the enterprise.

Anna Adamovna Yatskevich (July 31, 1904-1952), graduate of the Leningrad Art and Industrial College (1930). In addition, at the same technical school she completed a three-year course in the art of books and posters. After graduating from college on July 10, 1930, she was sent for an internship at the Red Porcelain Factory in the city of Volkhov. On January 15, 1932, she was seconded by the Rosfarfor trust to work at the Lomonosov State Federal Plant as an artist in the art laboratory being organized at the plant, where she worked for 20 years - until her death on May 13, 1952. In the pre-war years, A. A. Yatskevich worked a lot and fruitfully - she created vases, including with portraits of Stalin and other political figures, “Komsod”, “Moscow Metro” and others sets, various cups and saucers, anniversary feet, bottles and other products. In 1936, A. A. Yatskevich created the “LFZ” logo, which has since become the plant’s brand and was applied to the bottoms of all items produced at the plant until 2006. A. A. Yatskevich constantly participated in exhibitions of artists of the city and country. She was awarded the badge “Excellence in Socialist Competition of the People’s Commissariat for Industry and Construction Materials”, cash bonuses plant directorate and people's commissariat.

Artist A. A. Yatskevich, Lomonosov State Philharmonic Plant, paints a vase for the XVIII Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Photo by P. Mashkovtsev March 3, 1939. With the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the plant, the museum collection and some of the employees were evacuated from Leningrad to distant Irbit. Some factory artists remained in the besieged city. T. N. Bespalova-Mikhaleva wrote: “A. A. Yatskevich remained in a barracks position at an empty porcelain factory, where the director at that time was the former accountant of the factory A. M. Bogdanov. One day in the late autumn of 1941, the artist L.K. Blak and I decided to visit our factory. The wind blew through the workshops of the art laboratory, scattering the sheets of ancient library books, thrown in disarray to the will of fate. Anna Adamovna told us that she camouflages the ships clinging to the Nevskaya embankment near the plant with a supply of porcelain paints. It was cold, deserted, sad...” The personal merit of A. A. Yatskevich is the salvation of the unique library of the plant. Once she noticed that the soldiers of the military unit located next to the plant were looking at various pictures among themselves, clearly torn from some books. Looking closely, she was amazed to recognize in these pictures illustrations from books in the factory library. I began to look into it and found out that the collection of porcelain and glass from the factory museum, along with the equipment and workers of the factory, had been taken out by railway to the city of Irbit. For some reason, the carriage containing the books from the factory library did not have time to be sent and it remained standing, ending up in a dead-end station. It was from it that the soldiers took out factory library books and tore out beautiful pictures. A. A. Yatskevich decides to save the books and gradually transports the entire remaining library to the factory on a sled. In his autobiography, A. A. Yatskevich writes “mother Anastasia Yakovlevna and sister Sofia died during the difficult days of the siege of Leningrad in 1942.” On July 27, 1943, A. A. Yatskevich was awarded the medal “For the Defense of Leningrad.” In the fall of 1943, under the leadership of N. M. Suetin, the art laboratory of the plant gradually began to resume its work. In the summer of 1944, it was planned to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the founding of the plant and N. M. Suetin appealed to artists to create works for this significant event. On June 26, 1944, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Lomonosov State Porcelain Factory was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, 64 employees were awarded orders and medals of the USSR. Anna Adamovna Yatskevich was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In November 1944, A. A. Yatskevich completed work on the “Cobalt Mesh” service on the “Tulip” form of the sculptor S. E. Yakovleva. Under the leadership of N. M. Suetin, A. A. Yatskevich, together with artists A. A. Skvortsov, L. V. Protopopova and L. I. Lebedinskaya, worked in 1945-1946 to create a monumental vase “Victory” for the first anniversary of the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War. On March 18, 1946, A. A. Yatskevich was awarded the medal "For valiant labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."

Anna Adamovna Yatskevich (1904-1952), artist of the Lomonosov State Historical Museum (center) creating the vase "Leningrad - the cradle of the Great October Socialist Revolution." Photo 1947. In the post-war years, A. A. Yatskevich created various vases “Ornamental”, “Lux”, “Cobalt” and others, sets for mass production “Decorative”, “Summer”, “Moscow”, “Yellow background”, “Festive” and a number of others, various cups and saucers. Anna Adamovna created a painting of a large vase by the sculptor E. M. Krimmer with a portrait of K. E. Voroshilov and with the painting “First Cavalry”, painted the Great Neva Cup, painted the “Decorative” service on the “Lotus” form, where she showed a high class of skill gold quotations and a bold combination of blue tones with red selenium. Anna Adamovna's skill is distinguished by its subtlety, jewelry, and precision of compositional structures. It was brought up in the best traditions of the oldest porcelain factory in the country.” In March 1947 she was accepted as a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. As often happens in life, the author did not live to see the well-deserved recognition of his wonderful work. In October 1951, A. A. Yatskevich went on another vacation, went to the Caucasus, then fell ill and died on May 13, 1952, at the age of 48. She was buried at the Bogoslovskoe cemetery in Leningrad. Years passed... In 1958, in Brussels, for the first time after the war, the World Exhibition EXPO "58 took place. The USSR took part in it, occupying an entire pavilion. One of the country's enterprises represented at the exhibition was the Leningrad Order of the Red Banner of Labor Porcelain Factory named Lomonosov, whose products aroused great interest and were awarded high awards at the exhibition.For the harmonious combination of form and painting, simple and imaginative solution, the “Cobalt Mesh” service was awarded the “Gold Medal” (author A. A. Yatskevich, posthumously).

In 2015, JSC "IFZ" successfully celebrated the 70th anniversary of its creation and the 65th anniversary of the beginning industrial production“Cobalt mesh” service. Created by the talented Russian artist Anna Adamovna Yatskevich in the military hero city of Leningrad, the “Cobalt Mesh” service became not only an iconic item of the first porcelain factory in Russia, but also a symbol of our city, the personification of the classic St. Petersburg style. A. Kucherov, JSC "IFZ".

“Cobalt mesh” service. Author and performer A. A. Yatskevich, November 1944. Porcelain, underglaze painting with cobalt, overglaze painting with gold, zinc. State Federal Reserve named after Lomonosov, 1944. GE meeting. Reproduction of the author's facsimile on the bottom of the teapot.

Cup and saucer from the “Golden Mesh” service. The author of the painting is A. A. Yatskevich, 1948. Shape “Tulip”, author S. E. Yakovleva. Porcelain, overglaze polychrome painting, gilding, zinc. State Federal Reserve named after Lomonosov, 1950s.

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