Forget-me-not is a flower of memory and fidelity. These flowers of heavenly color are scattered over the earth by angels to remind people of the highest. A Russian legend tells of a young traveler who was so well received in an eastern country that he decided to stay there. As if a local girl fell in love with him and added a potion to his food that takes away memory. He lived in a foreign land, enjoying the power, wealth, and love of foreign beauty, forgetting about his homeland, about his mother, who was waiting in vain for his return or at least news. And she asked a wandering guslar who was heading for this country to give his son a bouquet of forget-me-nots. The musician found the missing young man, entered his luxurious apartment, and asked permission to sing. He sang a lullaby to the harp, and vague images arose in the young man's memory, inspired by the music and the song that his mother sang to him in childhood. And a bunch of forget-me-nots, blue like his mother's eyes, finally awakened his memory.
