What are Faberge eggs?
Czar Alexander III and his wife Czarina Maria Fedorovna celebrated their twentieth anniversary on Easter in 1885. Easter is the most famous holiday for the Russian Orthodox beliefs, which called the time of hope and renewed life. It was that in this very special occasion the Tsar wanted a very special gift that could introduce to his wife. On Easter morning he released a faberge enamel egg with gold yolk. Inside the yolk was a golden hen and inside the hen, the miniature royal crown of diamonds and ruby eggs. Maria was completely taken with a gift that led Czar to get every Easter to Faberge. Czar only insisted that every Faberge egg is unique and contains surprisingly the Empress. Inside there was a series of 10 screens on which small portraits of palaces and houses in which Maria lived like a Danish princess before marriedand with Alexander III.
After the unexpected death of the Tsar in 1894, Czar's son of Nicholas II performed on the throne of Czar's son. Nicholas not only continued the tradition of Faberge for his mother, but gave the order for the other eggs for his wife Czarin Alexandra Fedorovna.
Faberge's life has changed when the first 1900 world exhibition was depicted by imperial eggs at the 1900 World Exhibition. The excellent beauty of decorated eggs captured the worship of royal rank and aristocracy and Faberge was flooded with commission from all over the world. This led to the establishment of House of Faberge .
Theczar reign ended in March 15, 1917 between famine and riots. Nicholas and his family, including his five children, were held as a hostage more than a year before they were finally proven to the basement and executed on July 17, 1918. George Egg
Fifty -six imperial faberge eggs were made in total and from the forty four are charged and the other two were photographed. The Faberge Easter eggs were also entrusted with the owner of the Siberian gold mine Alexander Kelch, but the Imperial Easter egg collection is the most valuable.
mystic, beauty and capricious nature of the egg Faberge is still copied to this day, although few are aware of the history of the symbol of hope and life inspired by the Czar government, whose own lives ended in tragedy.