page_title: Outline of Saint Petersburg
section_title: Visual arts of Saint Petersburg
hierarchical_section_title: Outline of Saint Petersburg / Culture of Saint Petersburg / Arts in Saint Petersburg / Visual arts of Saint Petersburg
caption_attribution_description: English: On April 22, 1907, Tsar Nicholas II presented this egg to his wife, Alexandra Fedorovna, to commemorate the birth of the tsarevich, Alexei Nicholaievich, three years earlier. Because of the Russo-Japanese War in 1904, no Imperial Easter eggs had been produced for two years. The egg contained as a surprise a diamond necklace and an ivory miniature portrait of the tsarevich framed in diamonds (now lost). Faberg&#233;'s invoice, dated April 21, 1907, listed the egg at 8,300 rubles.
context_page_description: The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Saint Petersburg:
  Saint Petersburg – second-largest city in Russia. An important Russian port on the Baltic Sea, it has the status of a federal subject. Its name was changed to "Petrograd" in 1914, then to "Leningrad" in 1924, and back to Saint Petersburg in 1991.
context_section_description: Fine Art of Leningrad
  Leningrad School of Painting
  Painters of Saint Petersburg
  Events in Saint Petersburg
  White Nights Festival
  Festival of Festivals
  Scarlet Sails
  Languages of Saint Petersburg
  Russian language
  Veps language
  Media in Saint Petersburg
  Newspapers in Saint Petersburg
  The St. Petersburg Times
  Radio and television in Saint Petersburg
  Television and radio stations in Saint Petersburg
  People from Saint Petersburg
  List of people from Saint Petersburg
  George Balanchine
  Peter Carl Fabergé
  Ludvig Faddeev
  Mikhail Kutuzov
  Vladimir Nabokov
caption: The Rose Trellis Egg made in Saint Petersburg in 1907
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