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 ...

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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 renowned ...

It’s a history-making sale for a rare Fabergé creation. The Winter Egg, a dazzling object with ties to Russian royalty, sold for £22.8 million ($30.2 million) at Christie’s London on December 2, ...

For the imperial families at the helm of Russia’s empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, even Easter eggs were sometimes made of diamonds. Between 1885 and 1916, the luxury jewelry firm ...

Nicholas II, the last reigning emperor of Russia, commissioned Fabergé to create the Winter Egg in 1913, presenting it as an Easter gift to his mother, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna. The Russian ...

(CNN) — One of the last Fabergé eggs in private hands sold Tuesday for £22.9 million ($30.2 million), with fees, breaking its own record as the most expensive work by the Russian jeweler ever to ...

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, ...

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 ...

If you were obsessed with the Anastasia Romanov mystery as a kid, then you'll find the story behind the famous Russian Imperial Easter eggs just as thrilling. Fabergé Egg history is full of creativity ...