Faberge: The Discovery of the Missing Imperial Egg
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In this final episode of my exclusive interview with Kieran McCarthy, director of Warstki and curator of Faberge in London: Romance to Revolution at the V&A Museum, we discuss the utterly extraordinary circumstances that led him to discover the long lost "Third Imperial Easter Egg" by Fabergé. It had originally been given by Tsar Alexander III to his wife, Tsarina Maria Feodorovna, for Easter in 1887. Kieran describes what is thought to have happened to the egg from the time it was confiscated and taken from the Imperial Cabinet by the Bolsheviks in 1917, to being acquired by Wartski for a private collector from the home of a scrap metal merchant in the USA in 2014.  We also talk about the other two missing eggs that are thought to still exist and which are hidden/ lost somewhere.  Listen to the end and you will hear us discuss the role Faberge had in the fall of the Romanovs. www.wartski.com www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/faberge www.josiegoodbody.com/podcasts www.instagram.com/josiegoodbody/?hl=en 
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