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Coloured glass people know before custom glass. Glass – blowers did not know what they need for custom glass. But some of glass – blowers know that secret.

First who began learned is Mihail Lomonosov. First chemical laboratory was opened in Peterburg, there Lomonosov was made a lot of glass. Some of them we have in our musems.

FACTORY IN UST- Ruditsa In order to use result of their work in practice was require not a laboratory but special factory. And Lomonosov decided to build this factory. So, Lomonosov wrote a letter to Graph Shuvalov, who had a great influence at the royal palace and to support Lomonosov.

The letter was written in poem. After reading this letter, a lot of people have changed their minds about it. At this time, the Senate supported the Lomonosov and gave him permission to build a factory.

The area of land 6580 kilometers from St. Petersburg, near the town of Oranienbaum was placed under the factory. The project of the factory was made by him. For laying the foundation was need brick. Lomonosov built near Ust-Ruditsa brick factory. To perform many of the mechanical work was built on the river Ruditsa water mill.

Factory was built about two years. During this time, Lomonosov produced good masters, sending them to learn from the other glass factories. The factory was beginning in the spring of 1754. In this factory was manufactured colored tableware.

M. V. Lomonosov interested not only clear glass. He go in for smalts too. One day he saw Count Shuvalov mosaic portrait from Italy. Lomonosov decided to take up the mosaic pictures in Russia. He got a lot of color smalts in his lab and built a factory in Ust-Rudis for making color smalts.

Lomonosov began to compose his own mosaic pictures. His warks:

portrait of Peter I

Count Shuvalov

Now a magnificent glass painting "Battle of Poltava" size of 42 square meters, is in Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.