Silver brooch "Rosehip" collection "Herbarium of Tatiana 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.

"These wild roses symbolize summer for me. It begins with luxurious fragrant white or pink silk inflorescences. And the berries of your favorite red-orange shade decorate August. And decorate, competing with birches and maples, autumn. I believed that it was the thorns that protected the beauty of this self-confident but defenseless plant.

I was lying. There were no rosehip berries in my children's herbarium. There were only flowers and buds. I collected the fruits in a basket made of willow vines along the wild beaches of the Gulf of Finland, returning to Estonia from vacation from the Venetian places. When I stay on the farm, the first thing I will do is plant an unpretentious, devoted and healing rosehip. After all, the rosehip branch was also in the crown of thorns of Jesus.

I like to wake up early. Before me, I know, the rosehip flowers wake up and open. Always between 04:00 and 04:30 in the morning. In 925 sterling silver and enamel, they don't even close. The jewelers and I have extended the time. And they magically combined summer and autumn into brooches."

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