These Fabergé eggs survived revolutions, smuggling, world wars, and the scariest of them all — the auction block.

Nicholas II, the last reigning emperor of Russia, commissioned Fabergé to create the Winter Egg in 1913, presenting it as an Easter gift to his mother, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna. The Russian ...

A rare Fabergé "Winter Egg" made for Russia's imperial family sold for 22.9 million pounds ($30.2 million) at Christie's in London. Christie's says the sale sets a new world record for any Fabergé ...

Faberge's The Winter Egg, considered one of his most beautiful creations, sold for nearly £23 million ($30 million) at auction Tuesday in London, smashing the sales record for the legendary jeweller ...

For the imperial families at the helm of Russia’s empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, even Easter eggs were sometimes made of diamonds. Between 1885 and 1916, the luxury jewelry firm ...

(CNN) — One of the last Fabergé eggs in private hands sold Tuesday for £22.9 million ($30.2 million), with fees, breaking its own record as the most expensive work by the Russian jeweler ever to ...

Only 50 Imperial Easter Eggs were ever completed by Fabergé, with most now in museums. Courtesy Christie's In both its majesty and its provenance, the Winter Egg—one of fifty surviving Imperial Easter ...

Fabergé, the jeweler most known for its famously intricate Russian Easter eggs, has been sold for $50 million by a British mining company to an American tech investor who says he plans to expand its ...

The Imperial Tsesarevich Easter Egg currently on display at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Wikimedia Commons Most people get chocolate bunnies or plastic candy-filled eggs as presents on Easter, ...