Fedor Shalyapin as Boris Godunov
The sculpture was made at the State porcelain factory in 1928. Yakov Troupiansky executed some interesting statuettes for the State porcelain factory: the bust of F. Dostoyevsky (1922), F. Shalyapin in the role of Boris Godunov in the opera of Boris Mussorgsky (1922), ballerina Lukkom as Giselle (1923), "Red Army Jubilee" (1923), "Pushkin and Nanny" (1949), etc.