Jewellers in Russia

[Lisa]

I'm searching for informations about the jewellers in Russia... not the Russian like Fabergé, Bolin, etc...
I need more informations about Chaumet, Boucheron, etc in Russia: their creations, customers...

Please help me with your replies!!!

[Miamia]

... and of course Cartier was one of the foreign jewellers who served Russian clients.

Luckily there is a lot of literature of that company. There is for example a nice (and cheap) exhibition catalogue Cartier 1900 - 1939 by Judy Rudoe that has a chapter named The Russian Style. Check also the other Cartier books.

And you must be familiar with the Geoffrey Munn with his great book, Tiaras A History of Splendour (esp. pages 291 - 318 are of the Russian Jewellers and their Influence). Munn mentions the English firm Nichols and Plincke, referred as 'The English Shop'.

In the Master Jewellers by Kenneth Snowman there are short chapters of different jewellers, for example Boucheron, Cartier and the Finnish jeweller, Tillander, in St Petersburg.

Well that wasn't much but it's a start. I guess it's worth reading the bibliographies of these books.

[Joanna]

Hi Lisa,

In the remarkable site of Rosizo that Thomas A. linked to in another post, there is an article of the State Museum of History "Jewellery Masterpieces of Russian Craftsmen XIX-Early XX Centuries".  

"...best jewellery In Moscow and St.-Petersburg was that of such producers as C. Faberge, K. Bolin, D. Chichelev, F. Kekhlya, A. Ivanov, O. Krumbyugel, I. Morozov, A. Tillander, K. Ghan, F. Fuld, B. Fuld, V. Adler.

The most famous workshop in Moscow was the one founded by the 2 Guild merchant I. Chichelev. It was founded in 1815, and his inheritors continued the family business up to 1916). His gold jewellery with diamonds, pearls, gemstones and enamels were granted some of the highest awards at the exhibitions of 1862 in London, of 1865 in Moscow, of 1867 in Paris, of 1870 in St.-Petersburg, of 1873 in Vienna, of 1876 in Philadelphia, of 1882 in Moscow. The most valuable of his awards was the status the Purveyor of the Russian Imperial Court...?"

http://rosizo.ru/eng/japan/gim_jewerly.html

Under "Gold and Silver Craft and Jewellery Art in Russia":

"...The work of the most well-known jewellery firms, the Imperial Court purveyors Faberge, Sazikoff, Khlebnikoff, Ovchinnikoff and others was noted for its high class quality, exquisite taste and perfection of implementation..."

http://rosizo.ru/eng/japan/gim_gold_silver.html

Also "...Karl Iohannovich Bock (born in1851) — since 1874 owner of a jewellery atelier with 20-25 craftsmen and 3-5pupils. Since 1911 — a court supplier. Participated in World Exhibitions (Paris, 1900) and All-Russian Exhibitions (Nizhny Novgorod, 1896). Owner of "Arnd" Trade House. He owned also shops in Bolshaya Morskaya in Petersburg where best jewellery shops were located and in Kuznetsky most, the main "brilliant" street in Moscow..."

http://rosizo.ru/eng/japan/i/gim/002/01010251.html

Joanna