Which jewelry house created a series of jeweled eggs that made popular gifts for the Russian nobility from 1885 to 1917?
Fabergé egg Fabergé egg A Fabergé egg (, "yaytsa faberzhe") is a jeweled egg (possibly numbering as many as 69, of which 57 survive today) created by the House of Fabergé, in St. Petersburg, Imperial Russia. Virtually all were manufactured under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé between 1885 and 1917, the most famous being the 50 "Imperial" eggs, 43 of which survive, made for the Russian Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II as Easter gifts for their wives and mothers. The first Fabergé egg was crafted for Tsar Alexander III, who had decided to give his wife, the Empress Maria Feodorovna,
Russian nobility ensign or the 9th civil rank of Titular Councillor; 3) by being awarded the orders of the Russian Empire unless those gave hereditary nobility; except merchants (unless those were awarded between 1826 and 1832), who acquired honorary citizenship instead. The personal nobility wasn't inherited by children but was given to the wife of a personal noble. Russian nobility The Russian nobility ( "dvoryanstvo") arose in the 14th century. Its members (1,900,000 at 1914, 1.1%) staffed most of the Russian government apparatus until the February Revolution of 1917. The Russian word for nobility, "dvoryanstvo" (дворянство), derives from the Slavonic word "dvor"