Last Chance to See Fabergé Eggs
The Fabergé Eggs are going off line -- not forever -- but for a year at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
You've got a few weeks left to see these fabled Fabergé eggs before they go off view on June 14. They will be housed in the museum's vault until the grand opening of the museum's big expansion on May 1, 2010.
Lillian Thomas Pratt of Fredericksburg, Va. donated the Fabergé collection to VMFA in 1947. The VMFA collection is now the largest public collection of Fabergé imperial Easter eggs outside Russia. The collection feature five Fabergé imperial eggs by Peter Carl Fabergé.
Peter Carl Fabergé was the jeweler to the Russian court in the mid-1880s. He proposed to Czar Alexander III the creation of an elaborate Easter egg to be presented to the czarina in 1885. Such special eggs became an Easter tradition throughout Alexander's reign and that of his son and successor, Nicholas II. Fifty-four imperial eggs are known to have been fashioned before the fall of the house of Romanov in 1917.
Take a look at the Fabergé collection here with our slideshow.
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