In 1885, Tsar Alexander III landed on the perfect Easter gift for his wife, Empress Maria Feodorovna: a bespoke egg commissioned from Peter Carl Faberge, a master goldsmith of the jewelry company ...

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 ...

They are some of the most exquisite objects ever created and, a century after the last Faberge Egg was crafted, in 1917, the tiny treasures continue to fascinate for both their beauty and the ...

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 within.

Eight Fabergé Easter eggs went missing after 1917. Where are they? Nothing plays havoc with serious egg collecting the way an uprising does, and Russia, as you probably know, had a problem of this ...