Silver brooch "Mountain ash" 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 checked 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 accustomed 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.

"We have been painting this bunch for a long time. Rowan is both a poetic symbol and a talisman, a symbol of fertility and well–being. Rowan trees in Russia were always planted next to a hut or house. And under the windows of the newlyweds, and along the perimeter of the land, berries were laid out between the window frames. In childhood, we were forbidden to chop, pluck, and tear off branches and berries. The trunk of the rowan tree was used only for the staffs of priests and wanderers going on a long journey. It all fits together: my whole life is a journey. And we did not pluck the rowan tree, but painted it, turning it into a piece of jewelry. In memory of home, childhood and all the wanderings of life. When I saw our brooch, I looked away... the longest and most beautiful songs sounded in my soul...".

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