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Tairus (Russian: Тайрус, a portmanteau of Тайско and Русский ()) is a synthetic gemstone manufacturer. It was formed in 1989 as part of Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika initiative to establish a joint venture between the Russian Academy of Sciences and Tairus Created Gems Co Ltd. of Bangkok, Thailand.
The company was founded by Alexey and Elena Sokolov in 1993 in Krasnoye-na-Volge, Kostroma Oblast, Russia, a place known for jewelry manufacturing since the 19th century. The parents of the company founders used to work at Krasnoselskaya Jewellery Factory, established in Soviet times to consolidate smaller jewelry manufacturers. [3]
It helped the company to expand its own chain: in 2014, 258 stores totaled 6 billion rubles in revenue, making it the 6th largest jewelry retailer in Russia. [2] [5] By 2020, the company operated 350 stores and an online marketplace that offered Sunlight along with other jewelry brands, such as Sokolov, Aethet, Bronnitsky Jeweller, and more. [3]
Synthetic alexandrite is an artificially grown crystalline variety of chrysoberyl, composed of beryllium aluminum oxide (BeAl 2 O 4). The name is also often used erroneously to describe synthetically-grown corundum that simulates the appearance of alexandrite , but with a different mineral composition.
The firm's logo in 1908. The House of Fabergé (French pronunciation:; Russian: Дом Фаберже, romanized: Dom Faberzhe) was a jewellery firm founded in 1842 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, by Gustav Fabergé, using the accented name Fabergé. [1]
A La Vieille Russie is a New York City-based antique store specializing in European and American antique jewelry, Imperial Russian works of art, 18th-century European gold snuff boxes, and objets d’art. [1] Founded in Kiev in 1851, A La Vieille Russie later relocated to Paris around 1920 and to New York thereafter.
Growing evidence suggests Russian forces are stealing art and cultural artifacts from Ukraine on a scale not seen in Europe since the Nazi plunder of World War II.
After the revolution, British diplomats helped recover some of the Russian Court jewelry, and the Vladimir Tiara, a diamond diadem with large pearl pendants that originally belonged to Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, was bought by Queen Mary, wife to King George V, in 1921. [2] [5]