Rare Fabergé egg fetches record £22.9m
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The treasure created for Russia's imperial family led an auction at Christie's in London.
Easter eggs don't come more drop-dead opulent than this: Peter Carl Fabergé's jeweled masterpieces were designed for the Russian tsars to give to their wives and mothers – a royal riff on a much humbler Easter tradition of ordinary folk giving each ...
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 Easter, but for Russian czars at the turn of the 20th century ...
Fabergé Eggs are jeweled Easter eggs of staggering ingenuity and workmanship, designed by the Russian jeweler Carl Fabergé in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They were originally commissioned by the Russian tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II for ...