The Faberge Winter Egg Returns: The Journey From Royalty to a Qatari Vault скачать в хорошем качестве

The Faberge Winter Egg Returns: The Journey From Royalty to a Qatari Vault

In 1913, Tsar Nicholas II commissioned a Fabergé masterpiece for his mother—an Easter egg carved from rock crystal, encrusted with 4,500 diamonds, and hiding a basket of spring flowers inside frozen beauty. The Winter Egg was meant to symbolize hope: winter yielding to spring, hardship to renewal. But four years after Maria Feodorovna received it, revolution came. The Romanov dynasty fell, the Imperial family was executed, and the egg was seized, sold, lost, rediscovered, and sold again. From St. Petersburg workshops to Soviet vaults, from anonymous collectors to Qatari royals, the Winter Egg survived a century of upheaval while remaining perfectly preserved. In December 2025, it sold at Christie's London for £22.9 million to an anonymous buyer. This is the documented story of an Easter gift that outlived an empire—told through archival records, auction catalogues, and the silent testimony of an object that witnessed everything but revealed nothing except beauty. Some gifts were made to be cherished. This one was made to survive.