A super Russian diamond (plus five more) dedicated to the tsars ♦ ︎
The Russian mining group Alrosa announced for November an auction for the sale of a rare collection of already cut diamonds, including a giant stone of 51.38 carats. It’s one of the biggest diamonds ever put on the market. It is a round, traditional, 57-facettes diamond with a diameter of 1 inch (2.5 inches) big about the size of a man’s eye. According to Alrosa, which is a State-controlled company, is probably the most expensive diamond produced in the history of Russian jewels. The diamond is one of the five pieces made of the 179-carat Romanov raw diamond, extracted in 2015 in one of the mines of the company in the Yakutia region, in the Far East of Russia. In intentions all diamonds should be sold together with no less than $ 10 million. The Romanov name is a dedication to Tsar Peter the Great, who built the city of St. Petersburg and the Romanov dynasty, which ruled Russia for 300 years. Federico Graglia
