A Fabergé egg () is a jewelled
egg
An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the ...
first created by the
jewellery
Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment such as brooches, ring (jewellery), rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks. Jewellery may be attached to the body or the ...
firm
House of Fabergé, in
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...
, Russia. As many as 69 Czarist Russia Era eggs were created, of which 61 are currently known to have survived. Virtually all of the original first edition eggs were manufactured under the supervision of
Peter Carl Fabergé
Peter Carl Gustavovich Fabergé (; – 24 September 1920; also known as Charles Fabergé) was a Russian goldsmith and jeweller. He is best known for creating Fabergé eggs made in the style of genuine Easter eggs, but using precious metals and ...
between 1885 and 1917. The most famous of the firm's creations are the 50 delivered Imperial Easter eggs,
of which 44 are currently known to be in complete or partial physical existence, leaving the fate of those remaining unknown.
These eggs were commissioned for the Russian tsar
Aleksandr III (10 eggs) and tsar
Nikolai II (40 eggs) as Easter gifts for Alexander's wife and Nicholas's mother Empress
Maria Feodorovna, and Nicholas's wife
Tsaritsa
Tsarina or tsaritsa (also spelled ''csarina'' or ''csaricsa'', ''tzarina'' or ''tzaritza'', or ''czarina'' or ''czaricza''; ; ; ) is the title of a female autocratic ruler (monarch) of Bulgaria, Serbia, and Russia, or the title of a tsar's wife ...
Alexandra Feodorovna.
Fabergé eggs are worth large sums of money and have become symbols of opulence.
Two more of Fabergé Easter Imperial eggs (bringing the total to 52) were designed but were unable to be delivered. One egg known as the Karelian Birch Egg, has confirmed sketches but is not confirmed to have actually been made, and the other, the Blue Tsesarevich Constellation Egg, only partially completed due to the Russian Revolution of 1917.
More recently,
Theo Fabergé, grandson of Peter Carl Fabergé, has created a series of eggs as part of the
St. Petersburg Collection.
History
The
House of Fabergé was founded by
Gustav Fabergé in 1842 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Fabergé egg was a later addition to the product line by his son,
Peter Carl Fabergé
Peter Carl Gustavovich Fabergé (; – 24 September 1920; also known as Charles Fabergé) was a Russian goldsmith and jeweller. He is best known for creating Fabergé eggs made in the style of genuine Easter eggs, but using precious metals and ...
.
Prior to 1885,
Emperor Alexander III gave his wife Empress
Maria Feodorovna jeweled
Easter egg
Easter eggs, also called Paschal eggs, are eggs that are decorated for the Christian holiday of Easter, which celebrates the resurrection of Jesus. As such, Easter eggs are commonly used during the season of Eastertide (Easter season). The ...
s. For Easter in 1883, before his coronation, Alexander III and Maria Feodorovna were given eggs, one of which contained a
silver
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dagger
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and two
skull
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In the human, the skull comprises two prominent ...
s. The egg came with messages including "
Christ is risen" and "You may crush us—but we
Nihilist
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s shall rise again!"
Before
Easter
Easter, also called Pascha ( Aramaic: פַּסְחָא , ''paskha''; Greek: πάσχα, ''páskha'') or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in t ...
1885, Alexander III's brother
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich suggested that
Peter Carl Fabergé
Peter Carl Gustavovich Fabergé (; – 24 September 1920; also known as Charles Fabergé) was a Russian goldsmith and jeweller. He is best known for creating Fabergé eggs made in the style of genuine Easter eggs, but using precious metals and ...
create a jeweled egg. This type of egg is believed to have been inspired by an ivory hen egg made for the Danish Royal Collection in the 18th century. Known as the
Hen Egg, it has a 2.5-inch outer enamel shell and a golden band around the middle. The egg opens to reveal a golden "
yolk
Among animals which produce eggs, the yolk (; also known as the vitellus) is the nutrient-bearing portion of the egg whose primary function is to supply food for the development of the embryo. Some types of egg contain no yolk, for example bec ...
" within, which opened to reveal a golden
hen
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Hen, HEN or Hens may also refer to:
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sitting on golden
straw
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. Inside the hen lay a miniature diamond replica of the Imperial crown and a ruby
pendant
A pendant is a loose-hanging piece of jewellery, generally attached by a small loop to a necklace, which may be known as a "pendant necklace". A pendant earring is an earring with a piece hanging down. Its name stems from the Latin word ...
, though these two elements have been lost. It was given to the
tsarina
Tsarina or tsaritsa (also spelled ''csarina'' or ''csaricsa'', ''tzarina'' or ''tzaritza'', or ''czarina'' or ''czaricza''; ; ; ) is the title of a female Autocracy, autocratic ruler (monarch) of Bulgaria, Serbia, and Russia, or the title of a t ...
on 1 May 1885. The egg cost 4,151 rubles. Six weeks later, the emperor made Fabergé the supplier to the Imperial Court.
Maria was so delighted by the gift that Alexander appointed Fabergé a "goldsmith by special appointment to the Imperial Crown" and commissioned another egg the next year. After that,
Peter Carl Fabergé
Peter Carl Gustavovich Fabergé (; – 24 September 1920; also known as Charles Fabergé) was a Russian goldsmith and jeweller. He is best known for creating Fabergé eggs made in the style of genuine Easter eggs, but using precious metals and ...
was apparently given complete freedom to design future imperial Easter eggs, and their designs became more elaborate. According to Fabergé family lore, not even the emperor knew what form they would take—the only requirements were that each contain a surprise, and that each be unique. Once Fabergé had approved an initial design, the work was carried out by a team of craftsmen, among them
Michael Perkhin,
Henrik Wigström, and
Erik August Kollin.
After Alexander III's death on 1 November 1894, his son, Nicholas II, presented a Fabergé egg to both his wife, Alexandra Feodorovna, and his mother, the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna. Records have shown that of the 50 imperial Easter eggs, 20 were given to the former and 30 to the latter. Eggs were made each year except 1904 and 1905, during the
Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War (8 February 1904 – 5 September 1905) was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. The major land battles of the war were fought on the ...
.
The imperial eggs enjoyed great fame. Fabergé was commissioned to make similar eggs for a few private clients, including the
Duchess of Marlborough, the
Rothschild family
The Rothschild family ( , ) is a wealthy Ashkenazi Jews, Ashkenazi Jewish noble banking family originally from Frankfurt. The family's documented history starts in 16th-century Frankfurt; its name is derived from the family house, Rothschild, ...
, and the
Yusupovs. Fabergé was also commissioned to make twelve eggs for the industrialist
Alexander Kelch, though only seven appear to have been completed. Another notable patron was the oil baron
Emanuel Nobel, nephew of
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( ; ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and businessman. He is known for inventing dynamite, as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prizes. He also m ...
. In 1913, he commissioned an 'Ice Egg' from Fabergé.
Following the revolution and the
nationalization
Nationalization (nationalisation in British English)
is the process of transforming privately owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state. Nationalization contrasts with p ...
of the Fabergé workshop in St. Petersburg by the
Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical Faction (political), faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, ...
in 1918, the Fabergé family left Russia. The Fabergé trademark has since been sold several times, and several companies have retailed egg-related merchandise using the Fabergé name. From 1998 to 2009, the
Victor Mayer jewelry company produced limited-edition Fabergé eggs authorized under
Unilever
Unilever PLC () is a British multinational consumer packaged goods company headquartered in London, England. It was founded on 2 September 1929 following the merger of Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie with British soap maker Lever B ...
's license. The trademark is now owned by Fabergé Limited, which makes egg-themed jewelry.
In 2023, Fabergé debuted Journey in Jewels on Seven Seas Grandeur, a luxury cruise ship from
Regent Seven Seas Cruises
Regent Seven Seas Cruises (RSSC), formerly known as Radisson Seven Seas Cruises, is a luxury cruise line headquartered in Miami, Florida, United States.
Since September 2014, Regent Seven Seas Cruises has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Norwegi ...
. The egg will remain on the cruise ship, making it the first ever Fabergé to live at sea.
List of eggs
List of Fabergé imperial Easter eggs
Below is a chronology of the 52 eggs made for the imperial family. The dating of the eggs has evolved. An earlier chronology dated the Blue Serpent Clock Egg to 1887 and identified the egg of 1895 as the Twelve Monograms Egg. The discovery of the previously lost Third Imperial Easter Egg confirms the chronology below.
List of the Kelch eggs
Faberge was also commissioned to make eggs for
Alexander Ferdinandovich Kelch, a Siberian gold mine industrialist, as gifts for his wife Barbara (Varvara) Kelch-Bazanova. Though still "Fabergé eggs" by virtue of having been produced by his workshop, these seven eggs were not as elaborate as the imperial eggs, and were not unique in design. Most are copies of other eggs.
Other Fabergé eggs
Location of eggs
Of the 52 known Fabergé eggs,
[the 50 delivered Imperial eggs, the Karelian Birch Egg, the seven Kelch eggs, the Duchess of Marlborough, the Rothschild, the Youssoupov, Nobel, Resurrection, Spring Flowers, and Blue Striped Enamel eggs—total 65] 46 have survived to the present day. Ten of the imperial Easter eggs are displayed at Moscow's
Kremlin Armory Museum.
Of the 50 delivered imperial eggs, 44 have survived, and there are photographs of three of the six lost eggs: the 1903
Royal Danish Egg, the 1909
Alexander III Commemorative Egg, and the
Nécessaire Egg of 1889.
The previously lost
Third Imperial Easter Egg of 1887 has since been found in the US and bought by
Wartski for a private collector. All six of the missing Imperial Eggs belonged to
Maria Feodorovna.
After the
Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a period of Political revolution (Trotskyism), political and social revolution, social change in Russian Empire, Russia, starting in 1917. This period saw Russia Dissolution of the Russian Empire, abolish its mona ...
, the
Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical Faction (political), faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, ...
nationalized the
House of Fabergé, and the Fabergé family fled to Switzerland, where
Peter Carl Fabergé
Peter Carl Gustavovich Fabergé (; – 24 September 1920; also known as Charles Fabergé) was a Russian goldsmith and jeweller. He is best known for creating Fabergé eggs made in the style of genuine Easter eggs, but using precious metals and ...
died in 1920.
The
imperial family
A royal family is the immediate family of monarch, monarchs and sometimes their extended family.
The term imperial family appropriately describes the family of an emperor or emperor, empress, and the term papal family describes the family of ...
's palaces were ransacked and their treasures moved to the
Kremlin Armoury
The Kremlin ArmouryOfficially called the "Armoury Chamber" but also known as the cannon yard, the "Armoury Palace", the "Moscow Armoury", the "Armoury Museum", and the "Moscow Armoury Museum" but different from the Kremlin Arsenal. () is one of ...
on order of
Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov ( 187021 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. He was the first head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until Death and state funeral of ...
.
In a bid to acquire more foreign currency,
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...
had many of the eggs sold in 1927, after their value had been appraised by
Agathon Carl Theodor Fabergé. Between 1930 and 1933, 14 imperial eggs left Russia. Many of the eggs were sold to
Armand Hammer
Armand Hammer (May 21, 1898 – December 10, 1990) was an American businessman and philanthropist. The son of a Russian Empire-born communist activist, Hammer trained as a physician before beginning his career in trade with the newly estab ...
(president of
Occidental Petroleum
Occidental Petroleum Corporation (often abbreviated Oxy in reference to its ticker symbol and logo) is an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration in the United States and the Middle East as well as petrochemical manufacturing in the ...
and a personal friend of Lenin, whose father was founder of the
United States Communist Party) and to
Emanuel Snowman of the London antique dealers Wartski.
After the collection in the Kremlin Armoury, the largest gathering of Fabergé eggs was assembled by
Malcolm Forbes, and displayed in New York City. Totaling nine eggs, and approximately 180 other Fabergé objects, the collection was to be put up for auction at
Sotheby's
Sotheby's ( ) is a British-founded multinational corporation with headquarters in New York City. It is one of the world's largest brokers of fine art, fine and decorative art, jewellery, and collectibles. It has 80 locations in 40 countries, an ...
in February 2004 by Forbes' heirs. However, before the auction began, the collection was purchased in its entirety by the
oligarch Viktor Vekselberg. In a 2013
BBC Four
BBC Four is a British free-to-air Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was launched on 2 March 2002 documentary, Vekselberg revealed he had spent just over $100 million purchasing the nine Fabergé eggs.
[ "The World's Most Beautiful Eggs: The Genius of Carl Faberge"]
BBC FOUR He claims never to have displayed them in his home, saying he bought them as they are important to Russian history and culture, and he believed them to be the best jewelry art in the world. In the same BBC documentary, Vekselberg revealed he plans to open a museum that will display the eggs in his collection,
[ which was built as a private Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia on 19 November 2013.][The foundation supporting the Fabergé Museum in Saint Petersburg is the Link of Times Foundation, which has been repatriated lost cultural valuables to Russia.]
In November 2007, a Fabergé clock, named by Christie's
Christie's is a British auction house founded in 1766 by James Christie (auctioneer), James Christie. Its main premises are on King Street, St James's in London, and it has additional salerooms in New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Milan, Geneva, Shan ...
auction house
An auction house is a business establishment that facilitates the buying and selling of assets, such as works of art and collectibles.
Overview
The auction house is the physical facility where the objects are catalogued, displayed, and presented ...
as the Rothschild Egg, sold at auction for £8.9 million ($16.5 million) (including commission). The price achieved by the egg set three auction records: it is the most expensive timepiece
A clock or chronometer is a device that measures and displays time. The clock is one of the oldest Invention, human inventions, meeting the need to measure intervals of time shorter than the natural units such as the day, the lunar month, a ...
, Russian object, and Fabergé object ever sold at auction, surpassing the $9.6 million sale of the 1913 Winter Egg in 2002.[Fabergé egg sold for record £8.9m]
, ''BBC News
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'', 28 November 2007
In 1989, as part of the San Diego Arts Festival, 26 Fabergé eggs were loaned for display at the San Diego Museum of Art, the largest exhibition of Fabergé eggs anywhere since the Russian Revolution. The eggs included eight from the Kremlin,[ Memory of Azov, Bouquet of Lilies Clock, ]Trans-Siberian Railway
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, Alexander Palace, Standart Yacht, Alexander III Equestrian, Romanov Tercentenary, and Steel Military nine from the Forbes collection,Renaissance
The Renaissance ( , ) is a Periodization, period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries. It marked the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and was characterized by an effort to revive and sur ...
, Rosebud, Coronation
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, Lilies of the Valley, Cockerel, Bay Tree, Fifteenth Anniversary, Order of St. George
The Order of Saint George () is the highest military decoration of the Russian Federation. It was originally established on 26 November 1769 Julian (7 December 1769 Gregorian) as the highest military decoration of the Russian Empire for commiss ...
, and Spring Flowers three from the New Orleans Museum of Art,[ Danish Palaces, ]Caucasus
The Caucasus () or Caucasia (), is a region spanning Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is situated between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, comprising parts of Southern Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. The Caucasus Mountains, i ...
, and Napoleonic two from the Royal CollectionColonnade
In classical architecture, a colonnade is a long sequence of columns joined by their entablature, often free-standing, or part of a building. Paired or multiple pairs of columns are normally employed in a colonnade which can be straight or curv ...
and Mosaic
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one from the Cleveland Museum of Art[ Red Cross with Triptych] and three from private collections.Pansy
The garden pansy (''Viola'' × ''wittrockiana'') is a type of polychromatic large-flowered hybrid plant cultivated as a garden flower. It is derived by hybridization from several species in the section ''Melanium'' ("the pansies") of the ge ...
, Love Trophies, and Blue Striped Enamel
Location of the "Imperial" eggs
Location of the Kelch eggs
Location of the other eggs
In popular culture
Fabergé eggs have acquired a cult status
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in the art world and popular culture. Featured in exhibitions, films, TV series, documentaries, cartoons, publications, and the news, they continue to intrigue. They have become symbols of the splendor, power and wealth of the Romanov dynasty and the Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its establishment in November 1721 until the proclamation of the Russian Republic in September 1917. At its height in the late 19th century, it covered about , roughl ...
, priceless treasures to hunt, steal, etc.
As such, they have been part of the plot in several films and television series, including ''Octopussy
''Octopussy'' is a 1983 spy film and the thirteenth in the List of James Bond films, ''James Bond'' series produced by Eon Productions. It is the sixth to star Roger Moore as the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6 agent James Bond filmography, J ...
'' (1983), ''Mr. Belvedere
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'' ( "Strike" episode, 1985), '' Love Among Thieves'' (1987), '' Murder She Wrote'' episode "An Egg to Die For" (1994), ''The Simpsons
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'' episode 'Round Springfield" (1995) (in which jazz musician Bleeding Gums Murphy talks about his addiction to buying Fabergé eggs), ''Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'' (1997), '' Case Closed: The Last Wizard of the Century'' (1999), '' The Order'' (2001), ''Relic Hunter
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It centres on Sydney Fox, a professor who is also a globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to return to museums and ...
'' episode "M.I.A." (2001), ''Ocean's Twelve
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'' (2004), The Simpsons episode " The Last of the Red Hat Mamas" (2005), SpongeBob SquarePants episode " What Ever Happened to SpongeBob?" (2008), '' Thick as Thieves'' (2009), multiple episodes of '' White Collar'' (2009–2014), a 2010 episode of the TV series '' Leverage'' ("The Zanzibar Marketplace Job"), the ''American Dad!
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'' episode "A Jones for a Smith" (2010), ''The Intouchables
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'' (2011), '' Hustle'' episode "Eat Yourself Slender" (2012), many episodes of "Riverdale" belonging to Veronica Lodge, '' Scooby Doo! Mystery Incorporated'' episode "The House of the Nightmare Witch" (2012), ''An Easter Bunny Puppy'' (2013), ''Person of Interest
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'' episode "Search and Destroy" (2015), ''Imperial Eight'' (2015), the British crime drama series ''Peaky Blinders
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'' ("Lilies of the Valley" egg, season 3, episode 6, 2016) and s3e5, '' Hooten & the Lady'' episode "Moscow" (2016), '' Game Night'' (2018), '' Between Two Ferns: The Movie'' (2019), '' Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga'' (2020), ''Lupin
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'' (2021), '' Bhamakalapam'' (2022). and '' The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog'' (2023)
In Danielle Steele's 1988 novel '' Zoya'', a Fabergé egg is a keepsake of the last two remaining members of a noble family. The 2011 digital card game '' Cabals: Magic & Battle Cards'' features Fabergé egg as a collectible card. In 2017, visual artist Jonathan Monaghan exhibited a series of digital prints re-interpreting Fabergé eggs in humorous and surreal ways at The Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum is a public art museum located in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. Founded and opened in 1934, it holds collections from the mid-19th century that were amassed substantially by major American art an ...
in Baltimore.
See also
* Argyle Library Egg
*Egg decorating
Egg decorating is the art or craft of decorating egg (food), eggs. It has been a popular art form throughout history because of the attractive, smooth, oval shape of the egg, and the ancient associations with eggs as a religious and cultural sym ...
* Egg decorating in Slavic culture
* Guilloché
* Tatiana Fabergé
References
Footnotes
Citations
Bibliography
*
Further reading
*
External links
Fabergé Imperial Egg Chronology at Fabergé Research Site by Christel Ludewig McCanless
Empress Marie Feodorovna's Missing Fabergé Easter Eggs, article by Annemiek Wintraecken and Christel Ludewing McCanless
Playlist on Fabergé eggs; documentaries, lectures, etc.
* ttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1tcr BBC: ''Fabergé: The iconic maker of bespoke jewellery''
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