My friend Vasily Vasilich and “ours”. - The water has moved. - Peat bogs. Okunka goes to Paris for an exhibition. —Have you read the work of M. Hippolyte Taine? - Contractor Zakhar Ivanovich. — Old factory.

Register. — An ancient tower with chimes. — Present-day Nevyansk and leather goods from the good old days. — Rows, chest crafting, icon painting and “Luchinkov’s faith.”

Magic word. — Spiritual gold mining. — Fields and the godforsaken Petrokamensky plant. — Again the fields, Murzinka and the woman’s “oppression” of 50,000 rubles.

A new measure. — Mount Talyan. — A big name: a mine of colored stones. An ancient mine on Talyan. — How colored stones are “managed” today. Yakunka and Pronka. — Characteristics of various names of mines. - The size of the mines. — Bishop's stone, artificial gems, sherls.

"Casket" by Samoil. — Green roof and welcoming gates. — Crazy prices for gems. — Mommy Ulyana Epifanovna herself and her collection of topazes. Trip to Kaltashi. — Popov’s gem and “curious” person Danila. — How sapphires and rubies are mined on Polozhikha. — Lost diamond.

Geological structure of the strip where the Murzin mines are located. — Topazes and beryls. - Rock crystals. — Raspberry schorl. — Emerald mines on the river. Current. — Stones in the East and among classical peoples. — Superstitions and dedications associated with them. — Stones of ancient Rus'. — The passing fashion for stones in modern times and our contemporary superstition. — Mountain idolatry.

Center of Ural gems. - A cheating man. — Walking through the torment of a raw gem. - Trader and man. - Master lapidary and the same guy. — An anecdote about an artisanal stone.

The beginning of lapidary work in the Urals: — The founding of a lapidary factory in Yekaterinburg and its significance. - "Ekaterinburg Edge". — The current situation of the cutting industry according to modern statistical data. — Different groups of craftsmen into which the “stone-cutting suit” is divided: in the proper sense, a gem cutter, a seal cutter, relief work on stone, etc.

Trading in gems. - "Myself". — The antediluvian operations of this trade were actually in stores with stone products. —Lecandra’s soldier at the flea market and a resourceful Muscovite. — Trader at the rooms.

"Stone disease" and its victims. — Specialist collector, industrial collector and amateur collector. — Competition for gems from artificial stones. — Stealing stones.