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 ...

In 1885, Czar Alexander III commissioned 38-year-old Carl Faberge and his St ... from Forbes in 2004, this egg was made in 1898. Given as a gift by Tsar Nicholas II to his wife, Empress Alexandria ...

7 Tsar Nicholas II and his young family are most closely associated with the Faberge eggs. Nicholas, a reserved family man, was, as one historian put it, "as good a father as he was a poor tsar." ...

The Coronation Egg Presented by Tsar Nicholas II to his wife the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna at Easter 1897 Height: 5 in Estimated Sale Price: $18 million to $24 million The Lillies of the Valley ...

The Fabergé eggs are the intricately created Easter gifts crafted by Peter Carl Fabergé for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra. Fabergé presented the eggs to the royal couple ...

Tony Evans/Timelapse Library Ltd.//Getty Images Three Imperial Faberge eggs from left to right: The Cuckoo Clock, the Lily of the Valley (with photographs of Tsar Nicholas II and his two oldest ...

For Czar Alexander III, the Faberge Eggs were a token of love and affection, presented to his wife each Easter. At his death, son Nicolas II continued the tradition, bestowing eye-popping artistry ...

Viktor Vekselberg, the Russian aluminum and oil tycoon who purchased the Forbes Faberge collection in one stroke, said recently that Yekaterinburg, the city where Czar Nicholas II and his family ...

Spirit of Ecstasy Fabergé Egg. Figurine hand-sculpted in frosted rock crystal. Rose gold vanes, ... More embellished with nearly 10 carats of round white diamonds, resolve into swathes of natural ...

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Instead, Dorothy McFerrin bought what she believed to be an Easter egg created by the famed Russian artisan Peter Carl Faberge ... continued by his son Nicholas II until 1916.