Imperial Porcelain Established in 1744 in Saint Petersburg by order of Empress Elizabeth, the daughter of Peter the Great, the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory became the first porcelain works in Russia and the third one in Europe. The Imperial Porcelain Manufactory makes a wide range of products varying from home dinner sets and souvenirs to festive tableware at the presidential level, diplomatic gifts to the foreign heads of states, and major competition and festival prizes. Those tableware and souvenirs that Catherine the Great used are now exhibits in one of the World’s Four Museums Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg.