Cup with the portrait of M.M.Speransky
The portrait is based on a print of T.Wright from the original of G.Dawe
Gardner factory, Verbilki, Moscow Governorate
About 1885
Inscription on the base: «р. п. кал. Иркутс.»; on the body in two oval cartouches there are initials: “MM” [Mikhail Mikhailovich] and “С” [Speransky]
Porcelain, overglaze painting, gilding
6,5 х 7 сm
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The cup was made after Speransky’s return from the exile.
Count Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky, Secretary of State to Alexander I (1807), author of the project of a fundamental transformation of public administration (1808–1810). At the insistence of court circles Speransky was dismissed in 1811, then exiled. In 1814 he was reinstated, upon the recommendation of A.A.Arakcheev he was appointed to the post of the civil governor of Penza (1816), then the general-governor of Simbirsk (1819). In 1821 he was returned to Saint Petersburg and led the Commission on Codifying Laws. This work resulted in publishing the “Full Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire” under Nicolas I.
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