Faberge and St. Petersburg jewelers. Collection of memoirs, articles, archival documents: Faberge, Skurlov, Gorynya

The reader is offered an unusual book. It is difficult to determine its genre. Now they do not write novels, novels, stories, but write “texts”. Our book can be called “text about Faberge.” This is a historical documentary study of the Faberge era in Russian jewelry. This era has not ended and continues in our time in traditions that sacredly honor and observe St. Petersburg jewelers. It was they who erected the world’s first monument to Karl Faberge on the square in front of the main building of the Russian Self -Coals Association, and the nameless square itself was called the Square of Karl Faberge.
Karl Faberge headed the enterprise in 1872. The biography of the great jeweler was especially vividly disclosed against the backdrop of the Silver Age of Russian culture. The head of Faberge Birbaumu owns the text “Faberge History” (written in 1919), equipped with a detailed commentary and complemented by a list of more than 400 employees of the company. Much attention is paid to the history of contemporaries and competitors of Karl Faberge, especially P …

Author
Faberge Tatyana Fedorovna, Skurlov Valentin Vasilievich, Gorynya Alexander Sergeevich
Editor
Skurlov Valentin Vasilievich
Publisher
Faces of Russia, 2012