Feodor Chaliapin as Boris Godunov: a Soviet porcelain figure, State Porcelain Factory, Petrograd, circa 1923

designed by Yakov Troupyanskii, Feodor Chaliapin in the role of Boris Godunov, wearing a long red-lined black coat with silvered ornament and a white tunic with striped sash, on a shaped white base incised in Cyrillic 'Troupyanskii, [1]922', , with black enamel Jubilee mark for the fifth anniversary of the factory, No. 501/18, and impressed artist's cypher of Cyrillic initials

height 29 cm; 11 3/8 in.