Vekselberg opened the Faberge Museum in 2013 with the eggs as its prime attraction. The Lilies of the Valley egg had enamel portraits of Czar Nicholas II and two daughters that emerged from the ...

In October of 1894 the Czar's health fails. He dies suddenly in the prime of life, and his son, Nicholas II, unwillingly ascends the throne. "My God! The Lord has called our deeply beloved Papa to ...

The Fifteenth Anniversary Egg, a Faberge Imperial Easter Egg presented by Tsar Nicholas II to his wife the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna as a gift for Easter in 1911. Reuters.

The story of the imperial Fabergé Easter eggs is a fascinating one. It started in Russia in 1885 with what appeared to be an ordinary gift—a white enamel egg—but there was beauty hidden ...

The tsar commissioned a new Paschal Fabergé egg filled with surprise treasure every year. Tsar Nicholas II carried on the tradition after his father died in 1894, gifting an egg each to his wife ...

Miniature eggs were purchased for $20 to $50, the imperial Easter eggs were considerably more, as much as $16,500. The Fabergé objects had made their way, piece-by-piece, out of Russia during the ...

And the ultimate Easter Egg Hunt - scrap metal dealer accidentally finds Fabergé egg worth millions at junk auction. March 23, 2016 Caxton Central 1 minute read ...

The Trans-Siberian Train Faberge egg was made in 1900 for Czar Nicholas II as an Easter gift to his wife. Treasures from the Kremlin Palace are on show in Shanghai, including four Faberge eggs.

Between 1885 and 1917, Fabergé was commissioned by Tsar Alexander III and then his son, Tsar Nicholas II, to create 50 of what were known as the Imperial Eggs.

A previously unrecorded Faberge egg fetched nine million pounds ($18.5 million) ... Tsar Alexander asked Faberge to make one egg a year until his son, the next Tsar Nicholas II, ...

Another anachronism, Hoff writes, concerns the Egg’s Nicholas II portrait. The Czar is shown wearing just four of the five medals that bespangled his uniform from 1896 onwards.

A previously unrecorded Faberge egg fetched nine million pounds ($18.5 million) on Wednesday, setting an auction record for the jeweler, any Russian art object and any timepiece.