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

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

I lied. 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 a vacation from the Venetian places. When I stay on the farm, the first thing I will do is plant an unpretentious, faithful and healing dog rose. After all, the rosehip branch was also in the crown of thorns of Jesus.

I like to wake up early. I know that rosehip flowers are waking up and opening before me. It's 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.
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.