One-hundred thirty-six years ago, Tsar Alexander III of Russia commissioned Peter Carl Fabergé to create a jeweled egg as an Easter gift for his wife, Empress Maria Feodorovna. It was meant to be ...

2006-09-29 04:00:00 PDT Moscow-- Czarina Maria Feodorovna, the Danish-born mother of Russia's last czar, was buried Thursday next to her son and husband in the Romanov family crypt in St ...

However, only two years later, a British battleship was sent to Crimea to rescue the 72-year-old Maria Feodorovna (1847-1928), Nicholas II’s mother and, at the same time, George V’s aunt.

The piece first entered the royal collection in 1866, when Alexandra, Princess of Wales at the time, purchased it as a ...

The piece is the Empress Maria Feodorovna's Sapphire Brooch, and dates back to 1866. During that year, King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra (then the Prince and Princess of Wales) presented the ...