The Fabergé eggs are the intricately created Easter gifts crafted by Peter Carl Fabergé for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra. Fabergé presented the eggs to the royal couple ...

The Duchess was the Greek wife of Grand Duke George Mikhailovitch, cousin of the Czar Nicholas II. She had left left her husband behind in Russia, where he was assassinated by the Bolsheviks in 1919.

Tsar Nicholas II commissioned it for his wife Alexandra - Queen Victoria's granddaughter - as an Easter present. The children it depicts are theirs. ROYAL COLLECTION TRUST Mosaic Egg and Surprise ...

Nicholas II, Czarina Alexandra, their five children and four servants were executed by Bolshevik revolutionaries overnight to July 17, 1918. Located at the site now is the altar of the lower ...