Silver brooch "Lupin" from the collection "Herbarium of Tatyana Polyakova"

Since those distant years, vigorously traveling and living in different parts of the world, spinning the globe in the hope of finding, like Nabokov, my daisies and Rachmaninov, my lilacs, I have been looking for jewelers who could bring my dreams and childhood discoveries to life in precious metal. And so in the fall of 2019, at an etiquette brunch in my favorite St. Petersburg Astoria, which I arranged for clients, an elegant lady, the mother of two brothers, regulars of my course, presented me with a silver spoon of "Russian gems" with lilac flowers. My eyes flashed!

And in my life, my full namesake Tatyana Polyakova, the artist of "Russian Gems", who painted my herbarium from memory, also appeared. I also adjusted the slope of the stems, and the shades, and the proportions according to those Tver happy childhood memories. And, as it turned out, the best, free, beautiful, fragrant and precious memories of a lifetime.

In the summer of 2020, my mother left, who taught me to potted non-wilting flowers that were transplanted into gardens and lawns. Shortly before her death, symbolically, my first jewelry herbarium of 25 plants saw the light.

Bright lupin candles are most common to me: in Africa, in Japan, in the Cordillera, in the Alps, and in the Russian North in Karelia... And exactly in Altai and Siberia.
They are definitely not selfish, always in families and packs of their own kind. Waves of shades in roadside landscapes. Decoration of nature.
As a child, I knew nothing about the beliefs associated with lupin beans in monetary matters, about their use as protective charms or a symbol of attractiveness and health. I just loved to be photographed next to each other and compete with these inflorescences. I trusted them. I knew about their deep root system.
That's probably why I always single them out with my eyes.
The invitation to the lapel or to the thick knitwear took place.
She herself has already tried on grams of silver for a summer hat.

For more than a hundred years, Russian Gems has been preserving the technologies of the famous St. Petersburg jewelry school and developing innovative methods for making precious masterpieces. Craftsmen create luxurious jewelry, silverware, enamel-filigree products and interior items that distinguish the originality of the author's ideas and an unsurpassed level of performance.

The Imperial Jewelry House has repeatedly won prestigious awards from leading industry experts, which confirms the quality and high artistic value of the products.