Eighty years on from the devastating Allied bombings, the renaissance of this ‘Florence of the Elbe’ is complete ...

If the needle leaves no trace, the porcelain is hard-paste; if the surface is scratched, it is soft-paste.

There they find inspiration to create porcelain figurines as their country is invaded and they face constant shelling and destruction around themselves. As Stasenko and Leontyev make their art ...