About the book: 1974 / Academician Alexander Evgenievich Fersman (1883–1945) won universal recognition not only as a mineralogist and geochemist, but also as an unsurpassed popularizer of geological knowledge. His books “Entertaining Mineralogy”, “Entertaining Geochemistry”, “Memories of a Stone”, “Travels for a Stone” and others are well known to a wide circle of readers.A. E. Fersman was a romantic scientist, a “poet of stone,” as the writer A. N. Tolstoy called him. In the book “Stories about Gems,” the scientist reveals the complex and beautiful world of gems and colored stones. A. E. Fersman managed to convey all their beauty with amazing accuracy and lyricism, to show their growing importance in science, technology and life.