The firm of Fabergé is synonymous with the Russian Imperial family, but its fabulous baubles soon became a must-have for elites across Europe, writes Kirsten Tambling
In the waning decades of their dynasty, Russia's Romanov rulers maintained a standing order with Peter Carl Fabergé to create jeweled eggs to be presented as Easter gifts. Forty-three of them are accounted greatest artistic commissions of modern times and the remaining eggs.