Petersburg jewelers of the nineteenth- beginning of the twentieth century. Dynasties of famous masters of imperial Russia. About masterpieces, their creators,

The book St. Petersburg jewelers of the XIX - beginning of the twentieth century. - The last part of the trilogy about the masters of jewelry, written by an expert and researcher of this beautiful art, researcher at the Hermitage, candidate of art history Lilia Konstantinovna Kuznetsova. The peculiarity of her works, which makes them completely unique, is that each thing is considered not only from the point of view of attribution and description, but in the context of history, fate of the master and owners. None of the specialists in the field of jewelry art managed to do this. The magnificent knowledge of history, chemistry, gemmology, technology, multiplied by many years of work and selfless devotion to their work, led to a brilliant result. Plus a unique presentation style is figurative, bright. The reader involuntarily plunges into the past, in the court and high -society life, is in the workshops of jewelers. But at the same time - marginal accuracy, support only on facts. The book is distinguished by an extensive, detailed scientific apparatus. Therefore, both a sophisticated art critic and a simple reader will find in it something new and interesting for themselves