HOUSTON -- A Faberge egg and the jeweled elephant designed to fit inside it are reunited for the first time in almost a century thanks to a loan from Queen Elizabeth II. A gallery that opened Monday ...
The Imperial Tsesarevich Easter Egg currently on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Wikimedia Commons Most people get chocolate bunnies or plastic candy-filled eggs as presents on Easter, ...
When the latter-day Romanov emperors wanted to impress the beloved women in their lives, they gifted Fabergé eggs. Between 1885 and the eve of the Russian Revolution in 1916, Alexander III and his son ...
For the imperial families at the helm of Russia’s empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, even Easter eggs were sometimes made of diamonds. Between 1885 and 1916, the luxury jewelry firm ...
Nicholas II, the last reigning emperor of Russia, commissioned Fabergé to create the Winter Egg in 1913, presenting it as an Easter gift to his mother, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna. The Russian ...