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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Russian energy tycoon Victor Vekselberg has bought the largest private collection of Fabergé Imperial Easter Eggs, due to have been auctioned in April by the Forbes family, publishers of this Web ...

This is Tony Faber's felicitous phrase for the aesthetic sensibility that prevailed in St. Petersburg before the Russian ... czar and his family; Faber explains what happened to their eggs.

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 ...

Fabergé eggs, after all, were created for the Russian tsar's Easter celebrations. But they're not just a Russian elite luxury. Easter eggs are also a potent Ukrainian national symbol, and during ...