Silver necklace "Pot" from the collection "Tatiana Polyakova Herbarium"

I always freeze when I see these bright yellow flowers on the palms of the green, almost leathery leaves. Thoughts, or rather, muscles and the body remember these rapid movements of stopping the bike, instantly throwing off the dress and diving into the native river of childhood. The purpose of the first swim was to swim to the delicate hidden inflorescence, pull the stem and carefully remove the trunk from the depth – the longer, the more spectacular – beads were made from the trunk divided by children's fingers into a chain of centimeter-long small links. The hands repeat this movement even now. I got a pot from a boat in a pool in Kizhi a few years ago. The fingers recognized the trophies... Tears blurred my eyes... The fragrance of your favorite plant has not been repeated by any perfumer.

The potty necklace is my long–awaited trophy. Jewelers, I'm sure, painted their childhood memories<

Since those distant years, traveling vigorously 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 make my dreams and childhood discoveries come true in precious metal. """" And so in the fall of 2019, at an etiquette brunch in my beloved St. Petersburg Astoria, which I hosted 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!

"Russian Gems" artist Tatiana Polyakova, who painted my herbarium from memory, also appeared in my life. 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, having 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 was released.

"Russian Gems" has been preserving the technologies of the famous St. Petersburg jewelry school for more than a hundred years and developing innovative methods for making precious masterpieces. The craftsmen create luxurious jewelry, silverware, enamel-filigree products and interior items, which are distinguished by the originality of the author's ideas and an unsurpassed level of execution. The Imperial Jewelry House has repeatedly won prestigious awards from leading industry experts, which confirms the quality and high artistic value of the products.