About Adelina

Life is a magic trip. These stones are your companions.

My name is Adelina Amlinsky. If I am to describe myself in one sentence: I am someone who follows her dreams — literally. One night in Moscow I had a dream. I woke up, told my family we were moving, and within a few months we were in Tuscany. That is the kind of person I am. And somehow, it always works out.

The blood of nomads

My forefathers were from Adai — a proud Kazakh tribe of warriors who once roamed from the Caspian Sea to the Altai mountains. Wandering is not a choice for me. It is inheritance.

My father was a vulcanologist. From each expedition he brought me gemstones — sparkling, iridescent, each one carrying a story written in geological time. Those were my first toys and my first teachers. From childhood I learned to feel the energy of minerals, to understand what each stone carries within it. That knowledge became the foundation of everything I create now.

Sakhalin → Tashkent → Moscow → Tuscany → Jaipur → Berlin

I was born on Sakhalin island, far in the Pacific. I drew from the very beginning. I studied at the Arts School in Tashkent — after the severity of the Pacific, I melted into its mystical bazaars, hot streets and warm light. Then Moscow: graphic design, the Graduate School, Art Director at an advertising firm. Then the dream. Then Italy.

It was in Tuscany that I understood what I was building. My youngest daughter Amelie was born there, in a village where neighbours always open their door. Warmth, beauty, the simplest things — these became the language of everything I make. (If you want to meet Amelie, she has her own jewelry brand: Little Ameli.)

Jaipur: where stones are sacred

My jewelry is made in Jaipur, Rajasthan. The craftsmen there have been creating pieces for Maharajas since the 15th century. They understand stones the way musicians understand sound — not as material, but as living energy. Each Adelina piece is handmade. Each stone is chosen not only for its beauty, but for what it carries: clarity, courage, love, protection, transformation.

These are not decorations. These are instruments of self-expression.

Berlin: chocolate, creativity and sisterhood

My second home is Berlin. I live in a building that was once a chocolate factory — its walls still hold the aromas of vanilla and cocoa and something like magic. In this space I created a home, but also a gathering place: for events, art dinners, exhibitions, and conversations that matter.

Since 2015, I have hosted Smart Forum Women in Berlin — where women from different countries share what they know about building brands, creating lives, and supporting one another. A community has grown around it. Projects have been born from it. Together with perfumer Maria Borisova, we created a line of Adelina scents. This is what happens when women come together with intention.

Why Adelina exists

I got the seeker in me from my father. The ability to see beauty and make it real — from my mother, an artist from a large Cossack family where dinners were loud, warmth was constant, and creativity was simply how you lived.

Adelina is the sum of all of this: movement and rootedness, stone and story, the whole world as home. It exists for women who are not afraid to go forward — who trust their intuition, value beauty in the smallest things, and know that the right stone, worn with intention, carries its own quiet power.

Love. Courage. Support.

— Adelina Amlinsky