Pear-shaped alexandrite of this size out of Malyshevo doesn't come up often — most of what leaves that deposit today is cut down small, and a clean 1.815-carat teardrop is the exception rather than the rule. The cut favors the classic alexandrite performance over a dramatic outline: daylight shows a cool bluish-green with real depth to it, and under incandescent light the stone shifts into a convincing purple, tracing the same change that first made this deposit famous in 1830. At 8.81 × 6.08 × 4.98 mm it has genuine presence on the hand, with the kind of internal texture — fine growth lines, a few pinpoint inclusions — that reads as honest, untreated Ural material rather than a stone selected to hide its history.
