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 initial Faberge eggs had a unique design ... Again this small hen could also be ‘opened’ to reveal a tiny replica of the Imperial crown. And beside the crown, you could see the small ...

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 hen could also be opened up, to reveal a tiny diamond replica of the imperial crown and a tiny ruby pendant. The tsar and empress were so impressed by this first egg that Alexander III put in ...

Just two months before the nine imperial Easter eggs ... a replica of the coach in which Alexandra had made her grand entry into Moscow. George Stein, a master in the House of Faberge, spent ...

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 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 ...