History and Culture: Exhibition “Fabergé Style. Excellence Beyond Time” to open in Moscow Region

On December 15, 2018 the New Jerusalem Museum and Exhibition Complex (Moscow Region) is mounting a large-scale exhibition “Fabergé Style. Excellence Beyond Time”. There are more than 400 exhibits on display, many of which have never been displayed to the general public. The project gathers the works of the House of Fabergé from the collections of Russian and foreign museums: the Fabergé Museum in Baden-Baden (Germany), the State Hermitage Museum, the Peterhof State Museum-Reserve, the State Historical Museum, the All-Russian Decorative Art Museum and the Russian National Museum (Russia).

Among the key exhibits there are: the Easter Imperial Egg from Karelian birch (1917), the last Easter Egg, made and presented to the Imperial Family by the House of Fabergé; the Easter Imperial Egg “Blue Tsarevich Constellation Egg” (1917), intended as a gift to Empress Alexandra Feodorovna for the Easter in 1917; the “Butterfly” brooch (1896), presented by Emperor Nicholas II to actress M. N. Yermolova.