A set of silver brooches "Fern and Violet forest" 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 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.

"A bright green, brazenly beautiful, fern leaf opening in front of my eyes, unfolding in a spiral from a bud, arranged my first garden and forest art performances of childhood. I didn't believe in the legend of the blooming fern. I wasn't looking for him. I was looking for an artist who can draw my emotions, and a jeweler who will filigreely repeat the drawing and color my favorite sheet with layers of enamel. The fern protecting the delicate flowers of forget–me-nots and lilies of the valley is my perfect bouquet. A bouquet that won't wither. And it will not disappear from nature. And it will prolong spring and summer!"

With these modest natural compositions found in the copses of forest violets, my unconditional love for cultivated velvety and brazenly beautiful pansies began. I did not know the legend of the unrequited love of the gentle Anyuta at that time. Children's legends of feelings and experiences are different for everyone. But my love for violets – quiet, faithful and constant, like everything childish, remained. Feelings, like beauty, must be seen. Nature has suggested this to us, combining contrasting shades in inflorescences with bright greens of leaves and stems, attracting emotional brightness. Nature itself has formed a bouquet. The jewelers and I repeated the attacks of the flowers, the bends of the leaves protecting and supporting the flowers, and their spread.

The delicate, elegant violet is the hero of the secular, spiritual, and ceremonial life of many cultures since the time of the ancient Romans and Greeks. Bouquets of violets were pinned into hair, hats, corsets and dresses were decorated with them, then they were painted on the labels of crystal bottles and perfumes. I add candied violet petals to champagne and sometimes to tea.

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.