The claim was made in an open letter to Hermitage boss Mikhail Piotrovsky by Andre Ruzhnikov, who has been dealing Fabergé for 40 years.

The first brush strokes have been applied in an effort to restore the House of Faberge, whose artisans produced exquisite jewelry and other priceless objects of czarist conceit, as a museum ...

The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg / Christie's. ... In 2015, a gold Faberge egg re-emerged when a scrap metal dealer reportedly found it at flea market in the American Midwest.

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 ...

The egg is one of the nine Faberge Imperial Easter Eggs sold by the Forbes family to Russian industrialist Victor Vekselberg, Sotheby's announced on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2004.

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 we… ...

Should Fabergé’s Imperial Easter eggs be sanctioned? The Victoria and Albert Museum’s blockbuster Fabergé in London exhibition closes on Sunday. The exhibition’s emphasis is on the objet d’art the ...

MOSCOW — An American-owned collection of Faberge eggs, some of the world’s priciest knickknacks, ... director of the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, ...

Take a look at the lore of Fabergé eggs, from opulent originals to sparkling counterfeits. In the era of the Russian tsars, Peter Carl Fabergé's jewel-studded objets d'art were a royal riff on a ...

The Imperial Tsesarevich Easter Egg currently on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Wikimedia Commons. Most people get chocolate bunnies or plastic candy-filled eggs as presents on ...

The Fabergé Museum in the Shuvalov Palace houses the world's largest collections of works by Peter Carl Fabergé, including nine of the renowned, bejeweled imperial Easter eggs for which the ...