Faberge Eggs, Part 1

[@luisfedericosala1354]

If you visit Russia, don’t miss a visit at the Faberge Museum. I spent almost 4 hours in it, and still think that I am dreaming.

[@victorsomma4600]

Luis Federico Sala gay

[@somethink.g]

do you bring something home?

[@mediocremaiden8883]

Sigh. I wish we could. Americans aren't welcome I don't think, especially with Putin's Invasion of Ukraine

[@mediocremaiden8883]

​@@somethink.gNot if you want to leave with your head still attached to your body

[@OliviaBrown54]

Back when the history channel actually taught us history

[@angelswings1219]

YES!!!! They should at least change their name. At least now, there is "The Vikings".

[@Sksk27547]

Hahaha

[@shawnstone72]

I miss the old history channel

[@lumpy368]

You don't want to watch about aliens all day???? lol

[@skandababy]

This isn't history, its more inane pandering to the stupid... and the actual existence of such items as these eggs isn't far behind that.

[@russianlegacy]

Stunning craftsmanship. Perhaps, the best jeweler ever?

[@seeker453]

Coming from a person that has actually seen some of these eggs in real life at a museum, all I can tell you is that they look even more amazing close up!

[@benchampagne2477]

FORBES has sold his entire collection to the Fabergé museum in Saint-Petersburg, I visited this museum and it's fantastic. Never seen such wonderfull things.

[@MatthewSomethingOrOther]

You were in Saint Petersburg and didn't see ANYTHING as beautiful as an egg?

[@katiebayliss9887]

+Matthew SomethingOrOther 😀😀😂 haha

[@benchampagne2477]

@@MatthewSomethingOrOtherkieken: i saw everything.....you only know your all small depressive town

[@redgreen3815]

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[@THEFLESHGOD]

They are such amazing eggs, if only one day I am so lucky to see them in person!!!

[@chanchu3]

Faberge was such a great artist.

[@redgreen3815]

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[@goldenkuyatv1545]

wow very nice, faberge egg,, thanks ur nive vedios my friend

[@AlexOjideagu2]

I have a Cadburys Cream egg

[@moonblasterbow732]

WOAHE

[@randiphoenix1326]

😅😅😅😅

[@nickykeightley1724]

You know, this doccie should be all so serious.... All these Fabergé eggs and wotnot! Then up you pop with your cadbury cream egg, and that was it for me! I cracked up! You made my day! Thanx! 😁

[@gibraltarbritish6871]

creme

[@shawnstone72]

You must be a Vanderbilt. Lol. Your funny. Thanks for the giggle today

[@cheeseturtles1]

Man, I am so baked. I was looking at Fabergé Egg bongs, I clicked this video by accident, and then became interested enough that I continued to watch the whole video 'till the very end. Now I am familiar with how the name came about

[@xepicxredx]

+cheeseturtles1 exactly same here xD

[@eddiehearnsprotrudingsmall4866]

I'm a search for a fabrege bong now 😂😂

[@johns.87]

Hopefully yerrrr weed has DDT in it.

[@livelyupmyself1]

John S. you’re a fuckin tool.

[@smb123211]

I can't possible see why someone spending their own money on beautiful art would be upsetting. People collect things they like and pay lots of money for them - comic books, coins, baseball cards, swords, books, houses, boats, cars.

[@emo_raphiel_astoria]

FABERGE EGGS ARE BEAUTIFULLY CRAFTED

[@THEFLESHGOD]

THE MOST BEAUTIFUL EVER, THERE WILL NEVER BE ANYTHING LIKE IT EVER AGAIN!

[@thegrandmasabrina]

Very fascinating story. The Faberge eggs are beautiful!

[@smb123211]

What an incredible series for an incredible creation. Thanks for all the effort you put into these videos.

[@dmars7264]

I was sooo lucky to see the exhibit many years ago. It was so much more than the eggs and the details were amazing.

[@LuvZippy]

I love the idea of the surprises inside. They are so cuteM

[@Serkant75]

it is not only the jewel gold what´s worth it, it is the whole art and that it is rare so it sells for millions

[@redgreen3815]

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[@smb123211]

We were in Moscow right after the collapse of Marxism and saw an enormous exhibit of Faberge works for...ten bucks! It was really breath-taking, particularly the dozens of eggs.

[@morganolfursson2560]

Poor forbes ! Believing that purchasing 12 eggs would make him anywhere close to what the Tzar was . Forbes spent hundreds of millions on these eggs to show his wealth (by the way he never had 12 he "only" had 9) , but the Tzar only commissioned these as mere little presents for his wife and daughter . Buying an egg or even owning all 69 of them doesn't make anyone anywhere close to the original owner . Besides, the second Forbes kicked it, his family sold the eggs, all 9 of them .

[@BenihimeUchiha]

i came for the viewing of the eggs, but now i wanna hear more of the love story being told!

[@tompahdea5799]

The earliest History Channe programs were programs that produced by small griups or government that would explain a draft such as bookbinding or leather working of saddles.

[@AlexS-oj8qf]

If ypu think about it, these eggs were toys of the Imperial Family, and we held it with regards lol

[@vianeylara8502]

He tenido la oportunidad de ver una exposición de Huevos de Fabergé en Croacia ,son maravillosos !!!!

[@Odessitization]

people - especially in the west - forget, that before there was faberge, there was ivan kulibin, who made such eggs long before faberge.

[@dragonfly1929]

Never surpassed 'FABERGE '!!

[@redgreen3815]

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[@VendettaAllan]

- Your Majesty, people are dying of starvation on the streets of St. Petersburg - Too bad. Call that Faberge guy, I want another one of his expensive eggs.

[@philipzelasko435]

I saw Forbes collection of eggs ìn New York City many years ago,needless to say they were breathtaking.

[@johnobrien8398]

It’s enough to make you feel sorry for all the poor and starving people who died in Russia during the czars reign .The poor old romanovs how hard done bye they were it’s shocking. ........... .....

[@MarvelDcImage]

Not everyone comes to America. And since the Bush years we have many educated Americans leaving for work abroad. America lags behind in most leading indicators.

[@mikeedelstein3352]

Fascinating documentary on the House of Faberge which created intricate jewelry and is known for designing the beautiful Russian Imperial Eggs which were created for the Russian Tsars, Alexander III and Nicholas II. Faberge made a wide gamut of items and became a court jeweler and goldsmith to the Russian monarchy, ranging from stick pins to decorative boxes and desk sets to cigarette cases and perfume bottles to photograph frames and clocks. All the pieces were made with intricate designs and flawless details. Some of the most intriguing items made by Faberge were the miniature carvings made from semi-precious stones and embellished with gold or silver. The hardstone carvings included animal figures such as elephants and pigs. One of the most interesting and surreal were the flower sculptures which featured intricate carved semi-precious stone flowers set in small vases with clear rock crystal or quartz used to simulate the water in the vase. The film shows and presents many rare and exquisite items all made from precious metals and stones held in museums and private collections. All this came to an end with the fall of the House of Faberge after the Russian revolution of 1917. By 1927, Joseph Stalin had come to power in Russia and he ordered that the Imperial jewels the Soviets had taken from the Kremlin's Winter Palace be appraised and then sold. Peter Carl Faberge’s son, Agathon, who was being held in a Russian prison, and was released to evaluate the value of the individual Faberge pieces held at the Kremlin Armory. Between 1930 and 1933, fourteen of the Faberge Imperial Eggs were sold and sent to Paris and London. Armand Hammer sold many Faberge items who was an unscrupulous Soviet agent and laundered money that financed espionage for the Soviets in the 1920s and '30s. Hammer was solicited to sell jewelry from the Tsar and many other items to include religious artifacts for the Soviet government. Much of this is documented in the book by Edward Jay Epstein, Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer (Random House, 1996). Hammer purchased nothing but was consigned jewelry and other items to include selling fraudulent Romanoff treasures through his art gallery, many of the eggs were constructed from parts and remolded and restruck from the original Faberge dyes when the original period pieces were exhausted from the Soviet inventory. Interesting to note that many of the Faberge items were sold at various department stores throughout the USA via Hammer who set up a series of auctions and direct sales outlets. All profits went back to the Soviet government.

[@sandragruhle6288]

Many years ago, an exhibit of a few Faberge eggs was held at an art museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Someone broke in and stole one egg, as I recall, and it was missing for two years. Obviously, the man who stole it knew its value lay in its totality, and it would be worth little if it were broken apart for its jewels. He carried it, in the trunk of his car, wrapped in some greasy old rags for that entire time. When he was stopped by police in a distant part of the state, he was somewhat relieved, since he had been nervous the entire time he had transported it. He was, of course, arrested, charged, and imprisoned. The egg had not even sustained a crack.

[@oxfordbambooshootify]

I prefer my eggs scrambled

[@Sherriedc]

They are all beautiful and have been lucky enough to see about 10.

[@gacharose1738]

Father, why did you not name me anemone.

[@marcafragili8203]

I wonder how many of the starving peasants they could have fed instead.

[@davaiidiotseh2659]

Russia had no starving peasants back in the day they had some starvation in ukraine and belarus in ww1 (garman occupied)

[@marcafragili8203]

Davai Idiotseh Read some history of the country, or better yet, read War and Peace. Most countries have histories of population starvation.

[@davaiidiotseh2659]

Marca Fragili I promise u i know enough of the russian history we in the netherlands got it in college

[@rogerdiogo6893]

You miss the part the eggs were not that expensive to make, thus they would not feed any peasants... They were affordable at the time, I know the eggs I came across were on sale for around 5000 dollars, most eggs came at a expense less than 500 Russian rubbles at the time, according to the surviving "manifestos" from Fabergé. Also I know the eggs I seen in the late 80´s were real, since there was loose surprises of other eggs with them...

[@ГульнарБатешова]

Marca Fragili Yeeeesss these eggs are in blood...

[@GabyArgentina]

Bleeding gums Murphy and his fifteen hundred dollar a day habit

[@katlynwebb8474]

These would be my ULTIMATE b’day or Xmas present but it would have to be music based.

[@GabrielKnightz]

Liker Kinder surprise for royalty :)

[@redgreen3815]

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[@dadoughboy3556]

They look so cool! I'm gonna go find some! (Hops on roblox)

[@riggedice2189]

Da Doughboy I like that reference

[@tysonmartin3099]

I like fabergae's eggs so beautiful

[@IlyaStepash]

So Ferrero has stolen the idea from Faberge when they made "kinder surprise" . . .

[@sierramontoya6768]

The singer Selena Quintanilla had an faberge egg collection. It's even at her museum

[@henrylivingstone2800]

Fake faberge eggs, she had fake ones not real ones.

[@DaveDott]

I want one of these eggs so bad!

[@henrylivingstone2800]

Fun fact: The resurrection egg is not a true egg. It’s actually the surprise that was made for the Renaissance egg.

[@morganolfursson2560]

Most of the collection is in the US !!!!????? Out of the 69 eggs ever made , , 3 are in the Middle East, 2 are in Japan, 2 or 3 are in Germany , 1 is in Monaco, 2 or 3 are in Switzerland , 13 are in the US and 21 are in Russia and more than 2 third of them belong to Viktor Vekselberg, the rest are either lost or only the surprises remains . Do your homework , Forbes only owned 9 and they were all sold in 2004 and mostly bought by Viktor .

[@mlwilliams7959]

What happened to the Lillian Pratt collection?

[@morganolfursson2560]

@@mlwilliams7959 All five eggs donated to the Virginia museum of fine arts after Lillian's death.

[@mlwilliams7959]

Does anyone know if they would ever be on tour again?

[@sevdanasipova6342]

Very nice film! Thank you!

[@davidslefort6541]

What an amazing talented man wow

[@jonnybones52]

Im coming here from RIN

[@Sksk27547]

I hope that they find their jeweled eggs

[@iconoclasttheunholy4540]

These eggs are pure craftsman ship , I wish I could go in time and befriend the Czar's

[@morganolfursson2560]

Until then , you can enjoy having a closer look at them . I am part Russian so i can search the web in my own language . kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4a0iGyKr9l0laM Enjoy !

[@fortysomethingbadgirls2173]

Beautiful work on the eggs.

[@muffchuff9220]

I believe my nan had some Faberge eggs but I don't know what happened to them.

[@Tributist]

I wish i could have one of them... but i haven´t enough money. :(((

[@jayebirdjb7143]

Left me hanging.

[@jannahheart9743]

ooooh sparkly.....

[@RandomPonyProduction]

When the news paper said egg breaks record I diden't see the "record" part so I had a heart attack that the buyer broke it 0_0

[@Doggieman1111]

thanks for posting

[@FunnyChloeMichelle]

Wow. The eggs are beyond amazing. I don't even have the vocabulary to describe them. Funny though- the narrator says at about 6:48 or 49 that Faberge focused more on "'secular' images, such as the Tsar". That was an interesting comment. The idea of "secular", I believe, did not exist in imperial Russia. Nationalism was deeply tied into Orthodoxy. Any thoughts? C.

[@henrylivingstone2800]

Good observation, yes that is a strange comment usually because the Russian Tsars were often canonized as saints into the Russian Orthodox Church and royal figures such as the tsars would have clearly been significant figures in the church much like the queen is in the Anglican Church.

[@joycegeertsma7115]

ALL Faberge eggs should be on display in a Russian museum, only to be loaned out to museums in other parts of the world every few years or so, instead of being in a vault in someones private collection. They are part of Russian cultural heritage.

[@aldamane7753]

Putin has them locked away in a bunker. Lol

[@TheFrogInYourClosetWatchingYou]

Boohoo get real that's not how the world works

[@henrylivingstone2800]

Nah, that’s stupid. And most of the faberge eggs out and about are in museums there’s three in the royal collection, three at the MET, several in LA museums, one in the Walters museum. And a few in private hands.

[@moonblasterbow732]

1:02 Egg-squisite

[@MoneyShotMovies]

i felt sorry for the fucking chicken O.o

[@darrencary401]

I have to do this for a report

[@penggalikuburtongkatsemamb735]

This truly remind me to James bond 007: Octopussy and Detective Conan : Last Wizard of the Century

[@Eggs-N-Stufcom]

This is A historry of the Faberege Egg

[@pitot1988]

They found one of the lost eggs yesterday!

[@rogerdiogo6893]

pitot1988 In the late 80´s, early 90´s, I came across 2 lost imperial faberge eggs, the chicken with the little gold eggs and the little chicks, and another one that had a carriage in a thrift store in Lisbon, 5 years ago I came across the tsar enamel egg with his picture, saying he was "st petersburg star", also I came across 4 chains, that were faberge, one was a keep sake that had Nicolau picture and his wife at a young age, both times I try to buy it, but the person seling it grew suspicious...We are getting plenty of people form the old USSR, problem is, they don´t know how much this think is worth, and gets smellted down. I also come across 3 other eggs that were not Imperial, a gold and blue one, and a green emerald one...

[@channingbuckle]

+Roger Diogo You must really believe your own lies there buddy. Don't blow so much smoke.

[@rogerdiogo6893]

I have witnesses!!!

[@channingbuckle]

+Roger Diogo highly doubt that also, as I said don't blow so much smoke bud.

[@mnegan9448]

+channing buckle He did

[@scorpianofthesun]

I own a Faberege Egg. Not a real one though. I own a fake one.

[@kirillafanasyev8477]

5.5 million.Now worth 20mil all day.Fucking gorgeous

[@tamousha]

Does anyone know what happend to the 8 missing eggs?were they destroyed or just lost?

[@henrylivingstone2800]

Nah there still out there, the third imperial egg was found in 2017, and jade egg was found in someone’s private collection.

[@Ts2_]

this isn’t the roblox 2020 egg hunt egg i’m looking for...

[@gacharose1738]

The most beautiful.

[@gvi341984]

They are great

[@Ronbo710]

I wear Brut.

[@johnohara9433]

Terence McKenna brought me here

[@ThomasHarding1990]

I find it ridiculous that so many of the surviving eggs are now in the USA?! WTF Lol

[@jajanesaddictions]

They were sold off, legally, by the Russian Government after the revolution because they needed hard currency, and foreign hard currency is what they wanted. They sold them on the open market to the highest bidder.

[@benchampagne2477]

Nearly all the Fabergé eggs are NOT in USA anymore, but in Moskou and the Fabergé museum in Saint-Petersburg, a Russian oligarch bought them from FORBES for about 100 million dollars or MORE....

[@Ronbo710]

Yep more billionaires in Moscow than anywhere.

[@msbrowngault]

@@benchampagne2477 you can spell Fabregé but not Moscow? Seriously

[@benchampagne2477]

@@msbrowngault it's Fabergé, kieken

[@cheesecakemcgee3638]

My granny has a few of these and i would just look at them, i live for it

[@Decaturdan]

She should sell one to get you an education.

[@jocelynmandyuy3632]

How beautiful 🌹

[@MrStonecold69]

My favourite time of the year is Easter The eggs are a lot cheaper as well

[@brytex4life]

Terrence McKenna brought me here..

[@barbarahenry9231]

Love Faberge eggs

[@robt3078]

I have a kinder egg!

[@richie3802]

Geza Von Habsburg is a Prince of Austria by heir and right through his family whom are Royalty

[@TheFrogInYourClosetWatchingYou]

Nope

[@Thommaus]

beautiful!

[@ailst]

But hasn't Faberge copied the easter-bunny before?

[@WilliamKing-hf8lc]

Is William Shatner the narrator?

[@katlynwebb8474]

A person I know that I know who works at my day program was given an egg as a present by someone.

[@henrylivingstone2800]

Surely a normal egg not a faberge egg cuz unless they’re a sheikh or an oligarch I don’t think that’s a gift so easily given away considering there’s only 69 made and 56 known to have survived.

[@MerXDaPropheTGMO710]

Watchin this while cheefin on my Othership Faberge Egg, some Mothership Faberge Eggs are sought after and valued similar to the real Faberge Eggs

[@gacharose1738]

Made for his daughter Maria.

[@OfficialRXCNEdits]

Those jewels own by the Romanovs and stolen when they wher murdered.

[@Serkant75]

2:58 he is Harry Potter look at him oO

[@danceyjohnson1375]

+Sir Kant Lol yes, Alexandra looks just like Daniel Radcliffe and Nicholas looks like Tim Curry XD I paused and scrolled down to see if anyone else had noticed!

[@feridoonaslani]

fabernachi said to faberge..your circles is not an indication to my life..N

[@dadsonworldwide3238]

most of them are ok .only a few i find special.

[@stellaanneee]

I cant be the only one who is here because of detective conan

[@heartle1988]

is theft, return the eggs owners

[@belinromero6577]

Arent they dead???

[@jocelyngail4196]

Shouldn't these be returned to a family member They were stolen from the family

[@henrylivingstone2800]

There are no direct heirs still extent, they were all executed.

[@niemand-2895]

Kommt grad wirklich niemand von RIN? :D

[@50PullUps]

That Tsaress Maria was pretty hot!

[@oisin-m4z]

Tsar is spelt tsar, not czar

[@najgauner]

why the fuck would you buy extremely expensive eggs...

[@poppabear9279]

Yeah, but will it blend ? 🤔

[@elikuzmic8838]

Anna , first when saw an exit in years lunar of simple milky way, small onside a send to her was second in joy of family, Got a ceramic egg from a grands, in keep, same rare in half on linear,is sesame one eye on hand right on owner a bird on it , to put left on bible as she can left a card for others in house. Nice welcome . Repeat always mean a preparing in next salt on spend a lot more money for a concert , in adding thanks for listener. Own egg in family at list is a respect a glass on first!

[@sararakut8479]

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