you get on the hip the second book of leading research worker of the State Hermitage Л.К. Кузнецовой from plan the author of the three-volume edition sanctified to the insufficiently known to today area of home culture - jeweller art of XVIII - beginning of XIX of century.The first book of series is "Petersburg jewellers. A century is eighteenth, diamond". - already found a deserving place on bookshelves. Besides a narration oh masters-jewellers of period of rule of Alexander I and about their precious wares a reader will find in a book the entertaining details of mutual relations of Russia with the European states after the shattering defeat of Napoleon's France, histories of rewarding of emperor Alexander I higher foreign orders and recital of them.A book is written with a surprizing language, transmitter the atmosphere of "days of Александровых". She will open for a reader many new facts, but also will bring gladness from the process of reading.