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Article: EASTER TREASURES FROM FABERGE.(Arts & Literature)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- April 11, 2004
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Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard
For most of us, Easter eggs mean real eggs, hard-boiled, colored and decorated with crayons or stickers and perhaps hidden on the lawn or in the gardenx for children to discover.
But for members of the Russian imperial family at the beginning of the 20th century, they meant something else entirely: exquisite hand-crafted little enameled jewels, decorated with gold, diamonds and rubies, from the workshop of Carl Faberge.
Beginning in 1885, Faberge and his craftsmen created 50 of the now-famous eggs for Czar Nicholas, who gave them to his wife and to his mother for Easter gifts before the Russian Revolution ...