My Great American Fabergé Egg Hunt: The Danish Palaces Egg (Part 1)
Easter Sunday is tomorrow in many parts of the world, and I can’t think of a better time to introduce you all to a project I've been working on for quite a while
Easter Sunday is tomorrow in many parts of the world, and I can’t think of a better time to introduce you all to a project I've been working on for quite a while–all about a special collection of Fabergé eggs. Much of the story takes place here in America, but it begins on a dark night in St. Petersburg more than a century ago.
On Saturday, March 31, 1890, Tsar Alexander III and Tsarina Marie Feodorovna of Russia stood in the Grand Church in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, wearing elaborate court dress and waiting for the clock to strike midnight.
Forty-five-year-old Alexander had been Emperor of all the Russias for nearly a decade. His wife, 42-year-old Marie Feodorovna, had left her native Denmark almost 25 years earlier to marry the heir to the Russian throne. Sasha and Minny, as they were known to their family, were joined inside the incredible white and gold cathedral by their five children. Twenty-one-year-old Grand Duke Nicholas was the Tsarevich, heir to his father's throne, though not to his father's strong, gruff personality. The Tsarevich's younger brother, 18-year-old Grand Duke George, was looking forward to a career in the navy, but his precarious health was already beginning to cause concern.
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