When in 1894 Alexander chili III fell ill and died, he was his son Nicholas II to carry on the trad

Their legendary tradition began in 1885 when the Russian jeweler and goldsmith Peter Carl Faberge created the first egg with surprise at the Tsar Alexander III of Russia. Known as the egg with chicken, it had to be an Easter gift for his wife of Tsar Maria Fyodorovna who, delighted and surprised by the gift received, convinced her husband to appoint chili court jeweler Faberge. So every year the Tsarina was given a Faberge Easter egg and this tradition continued until 1917, when the Communist revolution chili of Lenin swept the tsar and let out the Faberge family from Russia.
Designed like a Russian doll, is white enamel chili on the outside and gold inside, inside which is an egg containing a chicken, which is also golden, meticulously chiseled which, in turn, contained two surprises chili now lost: a miniature replica of the imperial crown made of gold and diamonds contained as final surprise ruby necklace with a pendant.
When in 1894 Alexander chili III fell ill and died, he was his son Nicholas II to carry on the tradition of Easter eggs and the fashion house he produced two a year, one for your wife and one for his mother.
Do not forget that Easter for the Orthodox religion is a very important chili occasion and decorated egg is given as a wish, symbolizing life, fertility and resurrection.
These objects and decorated so precious that embody pomp and wealth, required a year or more to complete them and saw involved highly skilled artisans, given the complex processing.
Unique style so unique, they were created chili with precious materials such as gold, diamonds, gems and enamel, as well as their rich surprises, depicting usually miniatures, cameos, gems or mechanical singing chili birds.
Of the 50 imperial eggs produced chili only 42 have survived, chili collected by billionaires and real worldwide. chili In 2004, the wealthy Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg bought American publisher Forbes Faberge eggs as many as 9, thus returning chili them back to their homeland.
Egg in translucent agate resting horizontally chili on an oval base, decorated with red bellflowers from green leaves, pearls, rubies and diamonds, the surprise is unfortunately lost.
The most expensive part of a private collection in Qatar and it is the "Winter Egg". And 'in order rock crystal embellished and decorated with more than 3,000 diamonds and surprise, a basket of anemones, is made of white quartz, gold, platinum, nephritis and garnets. It was sold in 2002 to New York for a value of 9.6 million dollars.
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