Alexander Julius Fabergé (Russian: Александр Карлович Фаберже; Saint Petersburg, December 17, 1878 – 1952, Paris, France) was the son of

Carl Fabergé Carl may refer to: *Carl, Georgia, city in USA *Carl, West Virginia, an unincorporated community *Carl (name), includes info about the name, variations of the name, and a list of people with the name *Carl², a TV series * "Carl", an episode of tel ...

of the

House of Fabergé The House of Fabergé (; ) was a jewellery firm founded in 1842 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, by Gustav Fabergé, using the accented name ''Fabergé''. Gustav's sons Peter Carl and Agathonand grandsons followed him in running the business until ...

and his wife Augusta Julia Fabergé. He had 3 brothers, Eugen Fabergé,

Agathon Carl Theodor Fabergé Agathon Karlovich Fabergé (; ; – 20 October 1951) was a Russian goldsmith and philatelist. He was the second son of Peter Carl Fabergé. Early life Agathon Karlovich was born in 1876; he was educated at the Petrischule in St. Petersburg an ...

, and Nikolai Leopold Fabergé. He married firstly Johanna Tamermann and secondly Nina Belichova and had two children, Alexander Cyril and Irina Fabergé.Christel Ludewig McCanless ''Fabergé and His Works: An Annotated Bibliography of the First Century of His Art'' (Lanham, Maryland: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1994) The

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in Russia was disastrous for the Fabergé business. Most of its clients fled the country, if they were not arrested. The company was nationalized, which took the form of all five of its branches being closed. Carl Fabergé himself was able to get out of Russia in September 1918 and died in Switzerland in 1920. His sons did not succeed in leaving at the same time. Alexander Fabergé himself was able to leave in May 1920, travelling first to

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and then on to

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, on the SS ''Dongola''. From there, he settled first in

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and finally in

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. With his brother Eugen and Andreas Marchetti, Fabergé opened a new store in

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called

Fabergé & Cie Fabergé & Cie was a jewelry firm founded in 1924 in Paris by two of the sons of Peter Carl Fabergé, Alexander Fabergé (1877–1952) and Eugène Fabergé (1874–1960), together with Peter Carl Fabergé's business partner and jewellery designer ...

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