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Published: June 22nd 2017
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"Lilies of the Valley"
Around 1900, Carl Faberge made 50 Imperial Eggs in total, plus many others. Ten Imperial Eggs are in Moscow's Armoury Chamber, ten here in the Faberge Museum, eight are lost and the remainder are scattered across the globe. The last one to come on the market was bought by the Emir of Qatar for €30 million. He outbid a very rich Russian philanthropist who is trying to recover all Faberge Eggs outside Russia for this Museum. This beautiful piece is one of two imperial eggs made in the Art Nouveau style.
Geo: 59.7156, 30.3948
After a leisurely start we had an hour tour of the Faberge Museum. Then a 45 min drive to the re-named Pushkin Palace, home of the fabled Amber Room. This Summer Palace was built by Catherine I and vastly extended by her successors. Before the revolution Nicholas and Alexandra tried to shield their haemophiliac son from the public, and actually lived in the Summer Palace year-round for several years. And they were imprisoned there for a while after the revolution.
Then a very fine lunch, a canal cruise in the rain and home to our hotel. The 14 in our group have bonded quite strongly over our travels, and we organised a very jolly evening farewell get-together at a local pub/restaurant, followed by a nightcap at the lobby bar.
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Douglas Betts
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No Robyn in overshoes??