Fabergé Museum (Saint Petersburg)

It is a privately owned museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia where ir was established by Viktor Vekselberg and his Link of Times foundation in order to repatriate lost cultural valuables to Russia. The museum is located in central Saint Petersburg at the Naryshkin-Shuvalov Palace (21, Fontanka River Embankment) on the Fontanka River. The museum's collection contains more than 4,000 works of decorative applied and fine arts, including gold and silver items, paintings, porcelain and bronze. A highlight of the museum's collection is the group of nine Imperial Easter eggs created by Fabergé for the last two Russian Tsars.
==The collection==
The Fabergé Museum's collection has nine Imperial Easter eggs that were made to the order of the last two Romanov Tsars. The eggs were bought by Vekselberg in 2004 from the family of the American newspaper magnate Malcolm Forbes. He purchased them just before they came up for auction, paying $100 million for the Forbes family's entire Fabergé collection.
In total, there are fifteen Fabergé eggs in the Blue Room of Naryshkin-Shuvalov Palace, as well as a miniature picture frame in the form of a heart that is the surprise from the lost Mauve egg of 1897.
===List of Imperial Easter eggs===
* First Hen egg
* Renaissance egg
* Rosebud egg
* Coronation egg
* Lilies of the Valley egg
* Cockerel egg
* Fifteenth Anniversary egg
* Bay Tree egg
* Order of St. George egg
===List of other Fabergé eggs===
* Kelch Hen egg
* Kelch Chanticleer egg
* Duchess of Marlborough egg
* Resurrection egg
* Scandinavian egg
* Spring Flowers egg
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