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

Fabergé, whose father Gustav founded the eponymous firm, completed a total of 50 eggs for the royal family, 43 of which are accounted for today. After the first ... a golden hen sitting on ...

showed correspond dent Elizabeth Palmer his first egg, dating from 1885: "It's a beautiful enamel. Inside that is a golden yolk. Inside that is a golden chicken." Many of the eggs crack open to ...

But this was no ordinary decorated egg. This was ... ADVERTISEMENT First, she found a round yolk made entirely of gold. That opened to reveal a beautiful gold hen with ruby red eyes.

The first, the Hen Egg of 1885 ... Though revolution was in the air, Faberge – and his fabulous Eggs – flourished. The Communist revolution brought it all to an end. Once industry was ...

The jeweler delivered this white enamel egg, which twists open to reveal a golden "yolk" hiding a ruby-eyed hen ... tsar and his first two daughters. After the 1917 revolution, Faberge fled ...

This is now known as the Hen Egg, the first of 52 Fabergé eggs that were to be made for the royal family. The Hen Egg set the standard for Fabergé eggs to come. Hidden inside was a perfect ...

The Fabergé Museum in St. Petersburg, opened in 2013, is where Empress Feodorovna’s famous First Hen Egg is now kept. Seven of the Imperial eggs, however, are actually still unaccounted for ...

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