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 ...

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 triptych was purchased for the Louvre by the Society of Friends of the Louvre from the private collection of New York ...

2 Over the next three decades, Carl Faberge would create another 49 eggs for Russia's last two tsars. Pictured is the Winter Egg, one of his most famous, crafted from rock crystal and etched with ...

Russian tycoon Viktor Vekselberg on why he buys imperial Faberge eggs rather than football clubs When the harvests failed and hunger stalked the tsar's vast empire in the early 20th century ...

Several rival Russian billionaires staged a behind-the-scenes fight to buy the fabled Forbes collection of the czar’s Faberge eggs prior to Sotheby’s public auction. The nine jewel-crusted ...

In 1885, Czar Alexander III commissioned 38-year-old Carl Faberge and his St ... the first of 50 Fabergé Imperial eggs produced over 32 years. The violent Russian revolutions of 1917 saw the ...

On Easter Sunday 1885, Russian Tsar Alexander III presented his wife ... billionaire Alexander Ivanov paid £9 million for a Faberge egg made in 1902. Last year he gave it to President Vladimir ...

In the tradition of the Russian Orthodox Church, Czar Alexander III commissioned a delicate, intricately decorated egg as a gift for his wife to celebrate the holy day in 1885. But this was no ...

Considered one of the great beauties of the art world, the eggs were commissioned from Faberge by the Russian Tsars. Faberge and his goldsmiths designed and constructed the first egg in 1885 for ...

During the Easter celebrations of 1887, Russian emperor Alexander III presented his wife Marie Feodorovna with a jewel-covered Easter egg containing a ruby pendant. The egg, designed by the ...

A priceless Fabergé egg which ... for the Russian Imperial family from 1885 to 1916 by the jewellery firm House of Fabergé based in St Petersburg. The first was commissioned by Tsar Alexander ...