A gift of Nicholas II to Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna
on Easter, 1913. A golden egg with eighteen miniature paintings of the Russian
Tsars of Romanoff Dynasty. The egg pedestal is an eagle symbolizing the power
and glory of Russia and Romanoff’s Dynasty. There is a globe inside the egg
with Russia shown in the borders of 1613 and 1913.
*Information from
http://www.moscow-guide.ru/culture/folkart/eggs/index1.htm
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