Silver brooch "Water Lily" 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 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.

Lotus's relatives, the nymphs, served me for hours as a child. Nature has instructed the water lily to move after the sun. I've never been late. The ritual of passing by the pond with these living inflorescences lying on heart-shaped leaves is one of the most beautiful memories of summer village life. And isn't that where my punctuality comes from?

A symbol of beauty and eloquence, a talisman against adversity and obstacles during travel - I just need such a brooch. Thanks to the skill of jewelers, this summer I will decorate my tunic with a mother-of-pearl-white flower and put it on a ribbon on my head. Or a hat? After all, brooches are insignia. And - decency

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.
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