For more than 30 years, Nadezhda Nikolaevna Shiryaeva (1957–2017) has been growing Uzambara violets. She was not only the owner of a unique collection of Saintpaulias, numbering about 1,000 plants, but she herself was an enthusiastic breeder.Nadezhda Nikolaevna constantly experimented, used different methods of agricultural technology, vegetative and seed propagation of violets. Therefore, her experience of growing Saintpaulias, which she shared with readers, is invaluable.Shiryaeva wrote her book about violets, imbued with love for these plants, in the first decade of the 21st century. It is clear that over the past years, much has changed in the technology of growing Saintpaulias. And this, of course, is taken into account in the new book that you are now holding in your hands.