January 31 is a professional holiday – the International Jeweler's Day. Jewelry is the art of processing precious materials and making jewelry, a kind of arts and crafts. Its history goes back to the distant past. People have long since decorated themselves by making pendants, bead necklaces and bracelets out of shells, fangs, stones and gems. Then metals became the material for jewelry: meteoric iron, copper, bronze, gold, silver, platinum. In different eras created jewelry inherent to this particular time, which was reflected in the choice of material, methods of processing, technique and language of artistic forms.

The museum Collection features products of Russian and European artisans, who created not only jewelry, but also exquisite household items. These items were made of various materials – precious metals, porcelain and ivory, ornamental stones, glass and ceramics. They were decorated with carving, chasing, engraving, could be covered with enamel and inlaid with precious stones. These were a variety of everyday objects – pocket dressing bags, bottles for perfumes and aromatic salts, cigarette holders, mouthpieces, canes, seals and various table rattletraps.

To mark the international Jeweler’s Day, we have compiled a thematic photo album, which features jewelry household items made by prominent jewelry workshops and companies presented in the museum Collection Repository.

The biographies of world famous gold and silverware artisans and craftsmen, the history of various jewelry companies, factories and workshops are published in the section “Authors/Producers. Carl Fabergé firm, Bolin firm, Mikhail Perkhin gold and silverware workshop, Ivan Khlebnikov factory, Friedrich Rückert workshop, Rappoport workshop, Fyodor Lorie firm, Sazikov firm, Grachev brothers’ factory and others are among them.

You can sign up for a thematic tour “Russian jewelry. Carl Faberge and his contemporaries" on the museum Collection site.

On February 06, Thursday – our traditional lecture day, we invite you to the listen to the lecture “Carl Faberge: Jewelry Manager”. Lecturer Olga Melikyan.

What distinguished the managerial approach of Carl Faberge? What peculiarities of processing various materials brought Faberge worldwide fame? Answers to these and other issues in the lecture on Carl Faberge and his contemporaries.

The lecture will start at 18:00. The duration is 60 minutes.

You can register for the lecture on the museum website, in the “Lectorium” section.
Please note that attending the lecture with children under 6 years old is not recommended.