Fabergé: Romanovs to Royalty

Caroline de Guitaut, Deputy Surveyor of the Queen's Works of Arts, examines the stories behind some of the most important pieces by Fabergé in the British Royal Collection.
The British Royal Collection contains the pre-eminent collection of works by the Russian master goldsmith and jeweler, Carl Fabergé. In scale, quality, and diversity of object the collection has few parallels. But it is in its unique formation - acquired by six successive generations of the royal family from Queen Victoria to HRH The Prince of Wales - the collection stands alone. This lecture explores the history of The British Royal Collection, entwined with the dynastic links between the Romanovs and the British royal family.
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This presentation is part of the "Second Saturday" online lecture series presented by the Russian History Museum in Jordanville, NY.
Timestamps
0:00:04 Caroline de Guitaut's presentation
0:51:10 Q&A
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Image on video thumbnail is courtesy of the Royal Collection Trust: Mosaic Imperial Easter Egg. Firm of Peter Carl Faberge, workmaster Albert Holmström, 1914. The Mosaic Egg was commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II and presented to his wife, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, for Easter 1914.
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This video was originally recorded on April 10th, 2021. This program is funded in part by a Humanities New York CARES Grant with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the federal CARES Act.
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[@ladyagnes9430]

I watched this live, but I can't resist re-watching it.

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No need to resist, Lady Agnes! Please rewatch to your heart's content 😁

[@bulllmt]

I think that I must watch this several times. It is like a treasure chest that I need to 'unpack'. It also underscores WWI as a macabre family feud, although far more complex. Scholarship of the first water.

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Richard, thank you. We hope that you enjoyed this presentation upon first and subsequent watches!

[@henryphilipvige777]

Fabulous video!! Thank You!! I love all things Fabergé!!

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[@khalidalali186]

How marvelous! Thank you!

[@sandyhossman7771]

Faberge was such a gifted craftsman.

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Thank you for watching, Sandy! We definitely agree.

[@plooh5316]

Caroline de Guitaut is a wonderful lecturer. I highly recommend her "Fabergé in the Royal Collection" book

[@virginiasoskin9082]

Very interesting presentation. Thank you.

[@TakittyLove]

Thanks for all that information and details!! I have always got fascinated by Faberge eggs and the high levl of russian handcraft and jewelry. Greetings from Peru :)

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[@cristinamarquezarroyodecam5137]

Excellent presentation to watch over and over again. Thanks, Hannah!

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Thank you for watching over and over again, Cristina!

[@cristinamarquezarroyodecam5137]

Every time something new to discover and learn. Excellent presentation. Thank you for posting.

[@tollcross4755]

I saw the Romanov exhibition in the Queens Gallery at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh a few years ago. Lot's of magnificent Fabergé including that famous blue enamelled cigarette case.

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Beautiful! Thank you for commenting, Tollcross.

[@benoitcloutier9422]

Just beautiful.. !!!!

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[@bradmoyse6162]

Love the video. And your voice is beautiful.Thank you very interesting.

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[@33Donner77]

In watching this Faberge presentation I keep thinking of the transitory nature of politics.

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[@adagietto2523]

I like the little animals and the flowers best; but the mosaic egg is staggering.

[@dogsarebetterthanmen]

Amazing!

[@deev3282]

Not just three generation seen at 2:41 in the Tuxen family portrait, but members of the fourth generation such as princess Alice of Battenburg (prince Philip's mother) who is the little girl at front on the far right. She was born at Windsor Castle in the presence of Queen Victoria.

[@esgiereyes5082]

Another great video!

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@@RussianHistoryMuseum you're welcome and I truly enjoy the contents of your channel. There's a lot of things I'm learning and seeing for the first time!

[@cesarbugarini499]

I gasped 😱when she said the oats were en tremblant can't imagine what that must look like!!!! Would love a color photograph of that little hoarder's cupboard 😂😏😍👸45:45 double gasp 😂🙏

[@melanieking4357]

there should be no confusion as to the maker and origin of the imperial egg flower basket. Were not all works of faberge stamped?????????????????????????? It's surely ridiculous to even think faberge works were not stamped. lol but never the less interesting. thanky ou very much for this very informative documentary. Hello and cheers from Australia

[@samiultusher2305]

Russian rolays were unwelcomed in Bretain but their jewels were !! fascinating

[@maximhollandnederlandthene7640]

What would it be to reinstal the Romanov family for as a symbolic role. 🤔 And say a official sorry. Imagine what the Romanov family feel of all this is part of their heiritage. I love all to see and hear about Romanov history but it feels like the were be stolen of everything. Also they were providing the craftsmen and other people of the court and country isnt it !? Its just a thought ........

[@ladyagnes9430]

George V bought the Mosaic Imperial Easter Egg? With the surprise of the cameos of the children of his 2 first cousins ? After Parliment agreed to send a ship for them & George V requester a ship not be sent( in order not to endanger his position). If England was too risky, couldn't he have wired Karensky to take his cousins on the train all the way to Vladivostok? Therebwere British navy ships in the Pacific. Could have transported them to Vancouver.......British territory, but not close enough to London to inspire riots? Or would another British territory worked?George said Nicky was his favorite cousin, & Queen Victoria wanted Prince Ed to marry Alexandra( he proposed, she declined for love if Nicky - & Mary of Teck got that spot, & was offered to George upon Eddie's death). Couldn't SOMETHING have been worked out? Under the circumstances, if I were George V, I couldn't buy rum enough treasures, and I certainly couldn't look at those cameos of the 5 children who I left to die. Just my take on it.

[@Ire308]

My thoughts exactly. The King only needed to grant the Imperial Family safe passage to any place within the British Empire. It didn't have to be in England properly. George V was totally capable to save the Romanovs' lives, he chose not to.

[@jackr1779]

@@Ire308 Completely untrue, after a certain point George V was powerless. But what people ALWAYS forget is that Nicholas & Alexandra has no wish to leave Russia (some say they were holding out for a restoration) also the thought of exile and being a deposed monarch horrified Alexandra, she was very proud. No, as usual, Nicholas & Alexandra made the wrong decision and the whole family payed the price sadly. George V wasn't too blame, Nicholas & Alexandra were.

[@wmr9019]

The ruby decanters with dolphin handles?????? they look more like koi carp to me, dolphins don't have scales??????? I have swam with dolphins and I don't remember them having long fins around their gills 💩 And you're the expert ???😂😂😂