1885 was the 20th anniversary of the accession of Russian Tsar Alexander III to the throne. On this special holiday, the then Tsar Alexander III wanted to give his beloved wife a gift to comfort his newly married Queen Maria Feodorovna from Denmark.

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The Tsar specially ordered an exquisite Easter egg from Faberge, a royal jewelry design company, and gave it to the Empress as an Easter gift.

On Easter morning, Fabergé presented a simple-looking Easter egg to Alexander III.

But to everyone's surprise, there was an egg made of gold inside the white enamel outer shell. Inside the egg was a small golden hen. In the belly of the golden hen was a mini crown set with diamonds.

and a miniature egg made of ruby.

The several layers of "mechanisms" hidden in a small Easter egg brought an incredible surprise to the Queen. Maria couldn't put it down on Faberge's gift.

Alexander III immediately issued an order requiring Fabergé to design a unique Easter egg and present it as a tribute every year.

And it must make the queen happy.

Exquisite craftsmanship coupled with innate artistic originality allowed Fabergé to borrow creative inspiration from the glamorous palace life and meet the challenge year after year, designing 50 unique pieces for the tsars and empresses of the two Russian dynasties.

Fine Easter egg art.

From then on, Fabergé became the royal artist of the Tsarist Russian court, and he devoted half his life to serving the Tsar.

Of all these surviving royal eggs, 10 are preserved in the Moscow Armory Museum in the Kremlin; 9 are owned by Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg;

The Virginia Museum of Art owns 5 pieces; the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Tennessee, USA owns 3 pieces; the Hillwood Museum in Washington, DC, USA owns 2 pieces; and the Walter Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland, USA owns 5 pieces.

2 pieces; 1 piece owned by the Cleveland Museum of Art; 3 pieces owned by Queen Elizabeth of the British Royal Family; 2 pieces owned by the Edouard and Maurie Sandoz Foundation in Switzerland; 1 piece owned by Monaco; 1 piece owned by Qatar; 3 pieces left

In the hands of a private collector in the United States.