What is a Fabergé egg?
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A Fabergé egg is one of the jewelled, intricately crafted Easter eggs made by the House of Fabergé for the Russian imperial family and others.
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In 1885 Tsar Alexander III commissioned jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé to make an Easter egg for his wife, Empress Maria Feodorovna. The first, the Hen Egg, looked like a plain enamel egg but opened to reveal a golden yolk, a golden hen and, originally, tiny jewels inside. The tradition continued under Tsar Nicholas II, with 50 imperial eggs made until the Russian Revolution of 1917. Each egg contained a surprise, such as miniature portraits, a working model train or a clockwork swan. A few imperial eggs remain missing, and one was famously rediscovered in 2012 by a scrap metal dealer in the US.
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