Tsarskeyo Selo Egg

Nearly 300 years ago the Russian Tsars founded Tsarskoye Selo the Tsars’ Village where the Imperial family could retreat from the bustle of their capital city of St Petersburg. To commemorate the anniversary and to raise funds for the ongoing Tsars’ Village restoration St Petersburg Collection present Theo Fabergé’s TSARSKEYO SELO EGG and TSARS’ VILLAGE TREASURE.

The crystal Egg is mouth-blown and hand-engraved with images of the Royal Russian family at the principal palaces in Tsarskoye Selo. To the front Tsar Nicholas II is pictured with the Tsarina Alexandra in front of the Alexander Palace. The five children of the last Tsar and Tsarina are shown playing snowball in front of the Little Hermitage in the gardens of Catherine’s Palace. The final cartouche is that of Catherine’s Palace itself. Three glorious palace gates are ornamented to include the subtle differentiation of pedestal and ornament created by the original architects and craftsmen in wrought-iron. The superb hand-engraving continues in ornamental tassels enamelled with 24- carat gold descending from the finial of a triple-headed eagle fashioned in gold and silver. Engraved to the girdle of the Egg the monograms of all the Tsars who lived in Tsarskoye Selo. The fluted gold and silver base is set on a foot mouth-blown in fine crystal and fashioned to resemble lapis lazuli.

In the tradition of the Fabergé family open the Egg to reveal the surprise; Tsar Nicholas II last Emperor of all the Russias on horseback. Nicholas is modelled in gold and silver after an oil-painting whose original was acquired by the friends of St Petersburg Collection and returned to Alexander Palace a decade ago.

The Tsarskoye Selo Egg will raise funds for the restoration of the Tsars’ Village and in particular of Alexander Palace.

Theo Fabergé‘s creation is an enduring tribute to the magnificent Romanov Village and to the culture which created it.

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