The 10-centimeter-tall bejeweled eggs, some containing tiny gold ships, go on display beside a marble sausage made in the 1930-40s, evoking the hungry years of the Soviet era.
“All of the works at this exhibit are historical, representing the lifestyles of certain periods in Russia,” Tatyana Muntyan, curator of the Faberge Collection, told reporters in a bell tower chamber within the Kremlin Museums.
Faberge-designed gem flowers that once adorned royal cloaks, mini sculptures of soldiers who served under 18th-century Empress Catherine the Great and an ashtray in the shape of a hammer and sickle all feature at the exhibit, which has items from 17 Russian museums as well as private collectors.
The Carl Faberge firm was founded in 1842 in Russia’s imperial capital St. Petersburg and instantly gained fame after Russia’s tsars snatched up the eggs and jewelry.
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