Pink Serpent Egg

Faberge was very particular in who he deigned to work for. This 1902 Duchess of Marlborough Egg is the only large Fabergé egg to have been commissioned by an American. It is not, therefore, an Imperial Egg. It was inspired by a Louis XVI clock with a revolving dial.

Pushkin Palace

June 5th 2017
Geo: 59.7156, 30.3948After 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 ... read more

Europe » Russia

Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more

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