Anna Goreva, a student of the Department of Technology of Artistic Processing of Materials and Jewelry at St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design, developed the parure "Manuscripts do not burn" based on the work of Mikhail Bulgakov.
The jewelry set includes necklaces, earrings and a tiara made of yellow and white gold, rubies, diamonds, sapphires, precious opal and adulyara. The student used die casting and hot volumetric stamping as a parure manufacturing technology.
The necklace included in the parure was inspired by the image of the Patriarch's Ponds, which occupy a special place in Bulgakov's novel "The Master and Margarita".
"The Patriarch House is located in the central part of the necklace. But instead of the arches of the Patriarch's house, the colonnade of Herod the Great's palace was used. "... the procurator of Judea, Pontius Pilate, entered the covered colonnade between the two wings of Herod the Great's palace," Mikhail Bulgakov wrote. This modification reflects the connection between the two worlds, the events of which are narrated in parallel throughout the novel. Below the house there is a pond made of gold and encrusted with cornflower sapphires of different shades, imitating water," says Anna Goreva, a student at St. Petersburg State Pedagogical University.
The next element of the necklace is a tram, as if emerging from the Moscow fog, it reflects the reflections of the lights of the big city. The ruby insert that replaced the front headlight enhances this sparkling shine.
The final element of the necklace is the fatal oil spilled by Annushka. The element of the product is made of yellow gold, and on its front part there is an engraving with a female image from illustrations by the Soviet graphic artist Boris Markevich for the novel "The Master and Margarita".
The earrings, which were also included in the parure, were inspired by the most mysterious plot line of Bulgakov's novel, related to the historical portrait of Pontius Pilate, the Roman procurator of Judea. To create them, the student researched jewelry of ancient art. The earrings are based on elements of historical metal jewelry that served as military insignia for Roman legionaries — fibulae and phaleres.
The tiara included in the parure is called "Lavo manus". In the design of the tiara, the key elements shaping its appearance were the stylized composition of the territory of Judea and a jewelry insert made of fiery opal, resembling flames.
The thesis supervisor is Vladislav Zhukov, Professor of the Department of Technology of Artistic Processing of Materials and Jewelry at Ƶ.