biography
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Fabergé, Peter Carl
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originally Karl Gustavovich Fabergé
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pronunciation:
[faberzhay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1846–1920)
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| biography:
| Goldsmith and jeweller, born in St Petersburg, NW Russia. Educated in several countries, in 1870 he inherited his father's establishment in St Petersburg, moving from the design and manufacture of conventional jewellery to the creation of more elaborate and fantastic objects, most famous of which are probably the celebrated imperial Easter eggs, first commissioned by Alexander III for his tsarina in 1884. He died in exile in Lausanne, after his business had been destroyed by the events of the Russian revolution. |
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