Fabergé egg

A Fabergé egg (Russian: яйцо Фаберже, romanized: yaytso Faberzhe) is a jewelled egg first created by the jewellery firm House of Fabergé, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. As many as 69 eggs were created during the Czarist era, of which 61 are known to have survived. Virtually all of the original first-edition eggs were manufactured under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé, between 1885 and 1917. The most famous of the firm's creations are the 50 delivered Imperial Easter eggs, of which 44 are known to be in complete or partial physical existence, leaving the fate of those remaining unknown. The eggs are very highly sought-after collectors items. For example, the Fabergé Winter Egg was sold for US $30.2 million at auction in 2025.

The eggs were commissioned for the Russian tsar Aleksandr III (10 eggs) and tsar Nikolai II (40 eggs) as Easter gifts for Alexander's wife and Nicholas's mother, Empress Maria Feodorovna, and Nicholas's wife Tsaritsa Alexandra Feodorovna. Fabergé eggs are worth large sums of money and have become symbols of opulence.

Two more Fabergé Easter Imperial eggs (bringing the total to 52) were designed but were not delivered. One egg, known as the Karelian Birch Egg, has sketches but is not confirmed to have actually been made, and the other, the Blue Tsesarevich Constellation Egg, was only partially completed, due to the Russian Revolution of 1917.

More recently, Theo Fabergé, grandson of Peter Carl Fabergé, has created a series of eggs as part of the St. Petersburg Collection.