Gustav qualified as a master in 1841. In 1842, he opened the jewellery firm House of Fabergé in St Petersburg and married Charlotte Maria Jungstedt (born Jungstedt), the daughter of a Danish artist, Carl Jungstedt. He employed Johann Alexander Gunst, Johann Eckhardt and from 1857 August Wilhelm Holmström. Peter Carl Fabergé was initially educated in St Petersburg. In 1860, Gustav Fabergé retired and, together with his wife and son, moved to Dresden, leaving the business in the hands of Peter Hiskias Pending and V. A. Zaianchkovski. In Dresden, they lived at Walpurgisstraße and Victoriastraße, a few minutes’ walk from the Castle and the famous jewellery collection Grünes Gewölbe, with the important jewellery of Johann Melchior Dinglinger. Peter Carl continued his education in Dresden. A second son, Agathon, was born to the couple two years later. A daughter, Wilhelmine Charlotte Fabergé was born 1850 in St.Petersburg.