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020 $a9781400065509 (alk. paper)
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050 00 $aNK7398.F32$bF28 2008
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100 1 $aFaber, Toby,$d1965-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004075631
245 10 $aFabergé's eggs :$bthe extraordinary story of the masterpieces that outlived an empire /$cToby Faber.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $axvi, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [277]-286) and index.
520 1 $a"Between 1885 and 1916, Carl Faberge made fifty fabulous jewelled eggs - Easter presents from Russia's last two emperors to their wives. They have become the most famous surviving symbols of the Romanov Empire: supreme examples of the jeweller's art, but, to some, the vulgar playthings of a decadent court on the brink of revolution. Every one of these masterpieces is a slice of history, with each telling its own remarkable story." "Commissioned to produce a different egg every year, Faberge began a relentless search for novelty. It would see him exploiting, and extending, almost every jewellery technique and style available, creating eggs which reflected the lives and characters of the empresses who would receive them. Lavishly extravagant eggs commemorate public events that now seem little more than staging posts on the march to revolution. Others contrast the joie de vivre of the older tsarina, Marie Fedorovna, with her daughter-in-law Alexandra's shy and domestic spirituality. The muted austerity of the final few eggs seems all too appropriate for a country fighting to survive in the First World War." "The abdication of the last tsar, Nicholas II, brought the sequence to an end. As he and his family were brutally massacred in a Siberian basement, the eggs disappeared, only to emerge years later in the storerooms of the Kremlin. Their subsequent history encompasses Bolsheviks and entrepreneurs, tycoons and heiresses, con-men and queens. Eggs have been sold and smuggled, stolen and forged. Now, as they return to Russia, bought by oligarchs, their history - like that of Russia itself- seems to have come full circle. Faberge's Eggs provides an engrossing, compelling and at times surprising window onto the empire these masterpieces outlived."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aFabergé, Peter Carl,$d1846-1920.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79104286
610 20 $aFabergé (Firm)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79104269
650 0 $aFabergé eggs.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96012253
600 30 $aRomanov, House of$xArt patronage.
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