The permanent exhibition of the museum presents porcelain figurines made after the models created by Boris Kustodiev for the centenary of the artist’s birth. The figurines were created by the famous sculptor Yuri Gavrilovich Krayvanov (1928–2006).

Kustodiev was fond of sculpture ever since he was a child: he modeled, painted figurines and toys, and gave them to his friends and acquaintances. While studying at the Academy of Arts, the artist often visited the studio of his friend Dmitry Stelletsky. Later, he actively worked as a sculptor himself. In 1923, the artist’s works were commissioned by Sergey Chekhonin, the head of the painting department of the Volkhov Porcelain and Faience Factory. The models were made of dark gray plasticine. The sculptor Yakov Troupyansky cast the works in plaster, and the artists painted the castings (three to five for each model) with watercolors. But Chekhonin liked only two out of the five figurines — “Young Woman” and “Accordionist”, so they were mass-produced, while the rest were not.

A letter from Boris Kustodiev to Sergey Chekhonin reads,

When those troubles arose, Kustodiev transferred the production rights to the State Porcelain Factory in Leningrad (the former Imperial Porcelain Factory). The plaster molds “Merchant on a Walk (Merchant in a Fur Coat)”, “Merchant’s Wife with a Muff (Merchant’s Wife in a Fur Coat)”, “Merchant’s Wife with a Cat on a Trunk (Beauty)”, “Young Woman (Dancer)” and “Accordionist” have been preserved in the collection “18^th-Century Kuskovo Estate” at the State Ceramics Museum. The Boris Mikhailovich Kustodiev House Museum, however, does not have the porcelain figurine “Accordionist” in its collection.