Mikhail Adamovich

Mikhail Mikhailovich Adamovich (1884–1947) was a Russian decorative and monumental painter, and porcelain artist.

[3] Adamovich worked in Leningrad following the Russian Revolution and his two years service in the Revolutionary guard.

[1] The plate that was chosen had been designed in 1921 and shows a revolutionary worker stamping on the word "Kapital" in the Futurist style.

The design on an approximately ten inch porcelain plate shows the head of Lenin, Red Star and ration books.

The "Kapital" plate that was chosen for the BBC had actually been made twenty years before, in 1901, when the porcelain factory's production was reserved entirely for the Russian royal family.

At this time, the Russian people were starving, and what small production still took place in these factories was at least partially intended for export.