One-hundred thirty-six years ago, Tsar Alexander III of Russia commissioned Peter Carl Fabergé to create a jeweled egg as an Easter ... a miniature diamond replica of the imperial crown and ...

In 1885, Czar Alexander III commissioned 38-year-old Carl Faberge ... replica of the royal crown and a tiny ruby egg pedant. Known as the “Hen Egg,” it became the first of 50 Fabergé Imperial ...

which then opened to a gold-and-diamond replica of the imperial crown, which itself contained a tiny ruby pendant suspended on a chain. The so-called Hen Egg was the beginning of a series of ...

In the case of the Gatchina Palace Egg, the egg opened to a gold replica of the royal residence ... He died in exile in Switzerland in 1920. Faberge's imperial eggs stand today as a symbol of ...

The last Faberge Imperial Egg to go on auction was sold for $9.57 ... Inside a velvet-lined compartment is a replica of the royal coach.

The midsection of the hen swung up, and inside was a small, diamond-encrusted replica ... inside the eggs,” Rita Reif wrote in The New York Times in 1997. “The Imperial clients were secretive ...

To her enchantment, the tsarina opened it to discover a golden yolk shrouding a golden hen concealing a diminutive diamond replica of the imperial crown and a miniature ruby egg pendant.

The white enamel “hen” egg, containing a gold yolk, gold hen, tiny replica of the imperial crown and ruby pendant, was a hit, and Fabergé went on to create a new egg for the Tsar every Easter ...

The world's greatest private collection of Fabergé Imperial ... containing a replica of the coach in which Alexandra made her entry into Moscow. The Lilies of the Valley Egg, which Nicholas ...

The egg, designed by the renowned jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé, was such a success with the imperial family that Fabergé went on to produce dozens more. By the turn of the century, his creation ...

In 1827, an ambitious 24-year-old Russian took over his father’s jewellery business, determined to make it the talk of imperial St Petersburg. Thirteen years later, having gained a reputation ...