Tsar Nicholas II gifted the Winter Egg to Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna in 1913, five years before he was murdered along with his wife and children after the Russian Revolution. The egg went under ...

A rare Fabergé masterpiece created for Russia's last czar is heading to auction next week, and it could smash every sales record the brand has ever set. Christie's will offer the "Winter Egg," a ...

More Russian than this it does not get: Tsar Nicholas II had renowned Fabergé designer Alma Pihl craft the egg for his mother, the Dowager Empress, as an Easter present in 1913. Here, the backstory.