Everything that we know about Samarkand without having been there personally and without stumbling upon a guidebook compiled with love by an orientalist is a bizarre jumble of myths and facts. This is a host of associations that blooms in the mind after the first meeting with this city, albeit just in a photograph. The camera calms the magical turquoise of its mosques, doesn’t cope with the play of light and shadows in the arches of the mausoleums, and the matrix goes crazy trying to catch the amazing pattern of patterns.

For jewelers, Samarkand is a place of power, one of the points of the Great Silk Road, for many centuries it introduced Europe to first-class gems. Ilgiz Fazulzyanov, one of the main living jewelery artists, and made a collection of jewelry. First of all, it now has top-notch investment grade gems. Secondly, there are decorations that Ilgiz is ready to repeat. Thirdly, these are the works of haute joaillerie, turning into a fantasy-walk around Samarkand.

Ilgiz Fazulzyanov perfectly tells fairy tales in the language of jewelry motifs and techniques. This isn’t news, but just another evidence of the very constancy that is a sign of mastery.