Peter Carl Faberge's lavish eggs have graced myths ever since they were created for the Russian Tsars: Only royalty and billionaires can ever hope to collect them. Current owners include Queen ...

Vibrant, traditional, and modern, Russia’s two major cultural ... Fabergé’s fabulous eggs have enraptured the world since Tsar Alexander III commissioned the “First Hen Egg” from the ...

Carl Fabergé supplied the Russian Imperial family with elaborate jewelled Easter eggs from 1885 to 1916. He took pride in delivering the eggs in person to the Tsarina and the Dowager Empress. But ...

This is our review of Helsinki's Hotel Maria. It was launched in 2024 claiming to be the first true luxury hotel in Finland, ...

That’s how Moscow-based magazine "Automobilist" wrote about the Delaunay-Belleville car owned by Russian tsar Nicholas II in 1910. For that epoch it really looked like a miracle – back then it ...

French diplomat Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838) hosted a dinner for Russian Tsar Alexander I, after he marched into Paris following the allied forces' defeat of Napoleon in 1814.

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The extravagant digs is decked out with luxurious architectural features, gold-rimmed mirrors and an ironic nod to a former Russian Emperor. Only his close cronies have been given access over the ...

When Charles XII began his invasion of Russia, Mazepa, to the disgust of most of his Cossacks, seemed to be loyal to Czar Peter the Great. Later he switched his allegiance, thereby thoroughly ...