Each year, Peter Carl Fabergé made a one-of-a-kind Easter egg for the Tsar’s family. But Carl was forced to flee Russia during the revolution and eight of these priceless Imperial Eggs went missing. With one of the elusive eight recently found, could the other seven have survived the chaos of the 1917 revolution? Some historical context: The House of Fabergé was founded by Gustav Fabergé in 1842 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Fabergé egg was a later addition to the product line by his son, Peter Carl Fabergé. A Fabergé egg is a jeweled egg created by the jewelry firm House of Fabergé, in Saint Petersburg, the Russian Empire. Possibly as many as 69 were created, of which 57 survive today. Virtually all were manufactured under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé between 1885 and 1917. The most famous are his 52 "Imperial" eggs, 46 of which survive, made for the Russian Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II as Easter gifts for their wives and mothers. Watch 'Raiders of the Lost Art - Episode 3' here: ua-cam.com/video/uhxTkoBpr-M/v-deo.html #history #freedocumentary
@@NastyWoman1979 I was in my early 20s and a totally different person back then! I came from a big family I was the middle brother and decided to to the youngest brother to work with me as my mum asked me to get him a job to keep him away from gangs and crime. I was working as a cleaner in a office block but unknown to me was that the car being used for the Faberge egg job was stolen from the office I was working in and me and my brother were arrested in a planned operation months after the job by about 70 heavily armed fire arms officers in my family home location! We were never charged and since this day the famous Cardiff Faberge egg Heist has never been found.
I was fortunate enough to not only see three Fabergé cigarette cases, but also hold them in my hand. They were found in a shoebox in the bottom of a friends wardrobe. Her husbands father was an intellectual and was a great friend of Einstein. When he died, all his possessions came in a shoebox and his son was so disgusted at his "meagre" inheritance shoved the shoebox into the wardrobe. Many years later, when she was cleaning out the wardrobe, looked inside and not only found the three cigarette cases, but also correspondence from Einstein and her father in law. Obviously the find was a life changing event and made them very rich. I was able to see the cigarette cases just before they were sent to Sotheby's and auctioned off.
@@kyleanuar9090 They sold between 120K and 180K each from memory. This was in the 90's, so it was a life changing amount of money. Sotheby's even sent their representative to New Zealand to fetch them. The letters did very well too at auction.
@@starquant adjusted for inflation and say the total amount fetched was $600k ($150k for each cigarette case + 150k for the letters) in 1995, we have about $1.2M in today’s value. While it’s nothing to sneeze at, I wouldn’t say the amount made the family “very rich”.
@@donwinn8551 If you lived in New Zealand during that time, it did make you extremely rich. Wages were low and you simply could not get up and out from under. They were able to buy land and build a home, went overseas on holidays and had money to spare. Now 1.2 million might not buy you very much by todays standards, but back then you could count the number of millionaires in New Zealand on one hand. By the same comparison in todays money, every homeowner in Melbourne and Sydney are millionaires. The spending power you had back in the 1990's was a lot greater than the spending power people have today.
I was lucky enough to see the Forbes collection at a private reception in the 80s.. My mind still reels at the intricacy and beauty. There are no words that express the delicacy and minuteness of detail upon close examination
I knew as a friend of mine who visited the London store,and purchased a hard stone frog ,it was send back to Russia I believe. It was nephrite with ruby eyes.
I had a friend in Durham N.C., Tony Kim, that does restoration work on Faberg'e Eggs for museums from around the world. His enameled jewelry works are breath taking.
Are you still friends? I had painted 2 masks and based the colors and décor around the Rosebud egg and the Azov eggs and I made the egg in the shape of the Renaissance egg but I used Japan as the "surprise" when you open the lid.
There have been pieces found in the ruin of Faberge's workshop that would have been used in the 1917 Constellation Egg with diamonds in the Constellation of Leo. The reason for this was that Crown Prince Alexei was a Leo.
They are simply stunning pieces of art. How wonderful it must have been to, not only make these eggs and other almost equally beautiful objects, but to know that you could make them. I would be happy to have the skill to make such lovely things and then to make them. I would never want to own them. I would grow tired of seeing them and Tom Bombadil in the Lord of the Rings, I'd put them aside and forget them. I would be a most unreliable owner.
Beautiful documentary❤.Farberge eggs are stunning pieces of art.Now I really want to go to St.Petersberg and a look at his Beautiful collection of Eggs.
In St. Petersburg, there is a magnificent Faberge Museum - it contains some of the best imperial Faberge eggs, including my favorite "Koranational" one! But be sure to visit the "Armory" in Moscow! There is the largest collection of imperial eggs, including the largest "Kremlin"!
The ability for very few people to make handmade works of art like these in precious metals is what separates us from apes. it takes a lifetime of experience to even attempt one of these.
This is a great idea of a series, I’d love to see some of the UFO stuff and his hunt for all the other stuff. So interesting he seems to be one of the most successful to hold all the rare items lol obviously not a good guy but an interesting one
1) England was the main sponsor and organizer of the Revolution in Russia! It was in London that Lenin and his accomplices lived for many years! 2) Weapons and money for the revolution were supplied, as well as led by the leaders, George William Buchanan - the British ambassador to Russia 3) British intelligence officers, diplomats and businessmen were engaged in plundering the treasures of the Romanovs! 4) The English king and parliament refused to save the Romanovs, citing the fact that this would damage the monarchy! 5) England became the main beneficiary of the Russian Revolution, which removed a competitor to Europe, and minted coins for the Soviets and earned money by buying up the treasures of the Russian Empire.
@@peterpluim7912 This is not nonsense, but facts! Facts you don't like. But regardless of your attitude, England is responsible for all cases and intrigues against Russia!
@@peterpluim7912 it's absolutely true, England, along with America (obviously), financed and supplied weapons, to the tune of 20 million pounds, for the revolution. We have been lied to about almost everything in our history, perhaps a little independent research, yer know, pick up a book instead of watching Eastenders wouldn't go amiss.
The Rothchilds had a major hand in the downfall of Russia, Amshall Rothchild vowed he would get revenge after being thrown out, the Tsar at the time wouldn't allow Amshall to set up a bank there and so set in motion Rothchild's ire.
Moreover: the Russian army won the greatest victories and helped France - thousands of soldiers and officers were transferred from the Eastern Front to help the French! The Soviets sold the victory of Russia in WWI to England ((
They have the dowager empress dressed up in a ridiculous costume. That sort of outfit was worn at costume balls. The dowager empress would have worn a normal late Victorian or an Edwardian dress to meet with faberge. No crazy headdress. They even show photos of the dowager empress, her sister alexandra, and the empress Alexandra all dressed as normal people right in the video
This was very interesting from the history of the Russian revolution standpoint but what I really wanted to know is where did the American guy find the egg. They never said.what a disappointment.
@@maxsportsman2416 Nope. It was supposed to be in an antique mart in the Midwest. A yard sale in Texas would NOT sell something for $14K! That had to be a shop that would take that kind of credit card or money.
I just saw a documentary on Netflix I think, about the US soldier who came back from ww2 with stuff who lived in Texas I think. At the end of the video his daughter I think was asked about an "item" and it's whereabouts, and she replied that if said item turned up anywhere, that it was donated to a Goodwill in a box with costume jewelry. There was also another documentary I saw of the 2 male officers and 1 female officer during ww2 who looted the one castle in Germany and one of the males sold a fabrege egg for $500 somewhere in Europe back then that was never recovered...
03:44 "...how had it all gone so horribly wrong..." by a combination of blind greed, wilful neglect and aristocratic arrogance... that is how most revolutions are brought about, all you have to do is take away the aristocratic part and substitute in the rich elites (who are very little different), and you have the ground work set for the next one
Two of them are said to be in NY. The empire nephrite is said to be in a private NY collection and the angel with cherub was last sold by Armand Hammer in New York at Lord and Taylor back in the 1940’s.
@@henrylivingstone2800 Yeah, but you're giving undue attention to a fictional moment that probably happened in another way. If you want to believe that the Titanic didn't sink or things like that, then more power to you. Duh.
History does not know the subjunctive mood ... But you should know that the organizers of the Russian Revolution were in England! And the British ambassador to Russia led the protests. And the main beneficiary of the Revolution is England, which removed the main competitor in Europe and plundered Russia, while minting coins for the Soviets and selling equipment ...
He was a businessman, pure and simple. He was at the right place at the right time -- and he acted as a conduit between the Bolsheviks and the West. What's so bad or immoral about that? It was pure business. Doesn't mean he di an Edward Snowden and betrayed the west or his capitalistic values.
@@mylesgarcia4625 You obviously don't know much about the Cold War or history. Go read about Armand Hammer and the Cold War and maybe you'll understand about Armand Hammer.
So sad that such wonderful creativity is always reduced to currency. The artists in this world are slaves to the salesmen and bankers of our culture. It's so tragic.
That is not what she said. I think what she referred to was the fact that beauty such as those of the imperial eggs tend to be broken down to financial worth rather than the creativity and beauty being appreciated by most people. She did not say that artists should not be paid. Most commercial artists have to make what trends and customers dictate rather than live out their true passions. I think that was what she was referring to
@@eugeneviljoen8513 This did not stop Leonardo, Micellangelo, Raphael and Carravaggio, who worked for the richest and most influential people of their time, to create their masterpieces!
Nicholas greatest issue was his silly wife she lead him to his own doom and hers and their family sad. Who knows how it could been if he had become a democratic King. The Danish Egg is likely in the Danish Royal collection lost in their archives.
There was such a huge divide between the classes. There were the rich, and the destitute. There was no way out for the "lower" classes. They were being ground down into paste, with no relief. Sort of like today.
The peasants built themselves stone houses, the workers lived in their own apartments and received a salary in gold! The country was building and developing rapidly - that's why London sponsored the revolutionaries, and the British ambassador to Russia led the protests and sponsored the revolutionaries!
@@tbradley2014 you’re right He was not granted asylum. The Romanovs could have left at a certain stage during those tumultuous time but they chose to stay.
Err, I just remembered the egg was destroyed by General Orlav who thought it was a fake. Khan was perturbed when a listening device was found planted in it.
Well to somebody that's rich and has plenty to eat I guess them eggs will be worth a lot of money but to the rest of the world 90% you can't eat it ain't worth nothing nothing very soon the other 10% realize what that leg is really worth why you're starving to death
This ISN'T a documentary.....it is a cheap, stylized recreation of something that may have happened. Horrible format and deceptive production. As a historian, this has no value and is pathetic.
Each year, Peter Carl Fabergé made a one-of-a-kind Easter egg for the Tsar’s family. But Carl was forced to flee Russia during the revolution and eight of these priceless Imperial Eggs went missing. With one of the elusive eight recently found, could the other seven have survived the chaos of the 1917 revolution?
Some historical context:
The House of Fabergé was founded by Gustav Fabergé in 1842 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Fabergé egg was a later addition to the product line by his son, Peter Carl Fabergé.
A Fabergé egg is a jeweled egg created by the jewelry firm House of Fabergé, in Saint Petersburg, the Russian Empire. Possibly as many as 69 were created, of which 57 survive today. Virtually all were manufactured under the supervision of Peter Carl Fabergé between 1885 and 1917. The most famous are his 52 "Imperial" eggs, 46 of which survive, made for the Russian Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II as Easter gifts for their wives and mothers.
Watch 'Raiders of the Lost Art - Episode 3' here: ua-cam.com/video/uhxTkoBpr-M/v-deo.html
#history #freedocumentary
I know of the egg that went missing in Cardiff never to be found again! Me and my younger brother was arrested but not charged for it!
@@jhonsmith6614 that sounds like a fascinating story
@@NastyWoman1979 I was in my early 20s and a totally different person back then! I came from a big family I was the middle brother and decided to to the youngest brother to work with me as my mum asked me to get him a job to keep him away from gangs and crime. I was working as a cleaner in a office block but unknown to me was that the car being used for the Faberge egg job was stolen from the office I was working in and me and my brother were arrested in a planned operation months after the job by about 70 heavily armed fire arms officers in my family home location! We were never charged and since this day the famous Cardiff Faberge egg Heist has never been found.
@@jhonsmith6614 thanks for sharing but I'm certain was a little terrifying!!! Very cool story though!!
Look in weed near mountain Shasta in the third store
I could watch this episode a billion times! This has to be the last great main stream media documentary before UA-cam amateurs did it better
I was fortunate enough to not only see three Fabergé cigarette cases, but also hold them in my hand. They were found in a shoebox in the bottom of a friends wardrobe. Her husbands father was an intellectual and was a great friend of Einstein. When he died, all his possessions came in a shoebox and his son was so disgusted at his "meagre" inheritance shoved the shoebox into the wardrobe. Many years later, when she was cleaning out the wardrobe, looked inside and not only found the three cigarette cases, but also correspondence from Einstein and her father in law. Obviously the find was a life changing event and made them very rich. I was able to see the cigarette cases just before they were sent to Sotheby's and auctioned off.
How much did they fetch?
@@kyleanuar9090 They sold between 120K and 180K each from memory. This was in the 90's, so it was a life changing amount of money. Sotheby's even sent their representative to New Zealand to fetch them. The letters did very well too at auction.
@@starquant adjusted for inflation and say the total amount fetched was $600k ($150k for each cigarette case + 150k for the letters) in 1995, we have about $1.2M in today’s value. While it’s nothing to sneeze at, I wouldn’t say the amount made the family “very rich”.
@@donwinn8551 If you lived in New Zealand during that time, it did make you extremely rich. Wages were low and you simply could not get up and out from under. They were able to buy land and build a home, went overseas on holidays and had money to spare. Now 1.2 million might not buy you very much by todays standards, but back then you could count the number of millionaires in New Zealand on one hand.
By the same comparison in todays money, every homeowner in Melbourne and Sydney are millionaires. The spending power you had back in the 1990's was a lot greater than the spending power people have today.
That’s amazing!
I saw 15 Fabergé Eggs in the exhibition yesterday in London last week - they were magnificent, I’ll be going back again.
to get one?
I saw the exhibition in Cleveland Musuem of Art in the late 1990s. Was a birthday gift that included a book about the stunning eggs.
@@somethink.g 😅😂🤣
Can you take photos. It would be wonderful to see them.
@@StephanieElizabethMann we were not allowed to take photos at the exhibition!
I was lucky enough to see the Forbes collection at a private reception in the 80s.. My mind still reels at the intricacy and beauty. There are no words that express the delicacy and minuteness of detail upon
close examination
Very lucky you!
My family is from Warsaw Poland. My grandparents had Frabrege eggs
You're very lucky. I remember when Malcom made them available to the public. Only saw them in Smithsonian Magazine. Breathtaking.
I knew as a friend of mine who visited the London store,and purchased a hard stone frog ,it was send back to Russia I believe.
It was nephrite with ruby eyes.
@@addamz3277 doubt that,most likely they had copy ones,many in Eastern Europe have such
Faberge was a fabulous artist and a master jeweler. He produced the most beautiful pieces of art of the world.
Thanks for repeating this in case anyone didn't pick it up themselves in the video.
@@murdoqruckus5243
Who the flying f**k is Michael Angelo 😂😂😂😂
everyone is always mean to each other on UA-cam 😔
Yes, the most beautiful pieces of art the world has ever seen.
These eggs embody everything a work of art should be !
I had a friend in Durham N.C., Tony Kim, that does restoration work on Faberg'e Eggs for museums from around the world. His enameled jewelry works are breath taking.
Are you still friends? I had painted 2 masks and based the colors and décor around the Rosebud egg and the Azov eggs and I made the egg in the shape of the Renaissance egg but I used Japan as the "surprise" when you open the lid.
There have been pieces found in the ruin of Faberge's workshop that would have been used in the 1917 Constellation Egg with diamonds in the Constellation of Leo. The reason for this was that Crown Prince Alexei was a Leo.
Great Art and Craftsmanship in the times of Great Misery... a Cultural paradox... Beauty and Tragedy...
The whole history is tragic and at least dramatic!
Stunning history. As humans we invest our emotions in objects. The object reflects the emotionality of the events in which they were created.
I'd rather have a cat or two. At least they offer love and companionship. I don't need junk to dust.
Lmao I'd rather have some fancy junk. Bc I'd sell it and buy 1000 cats!!!
@@lilliehalumi8770
Do you have any idea how much work goes into making something like this ! Junk it certainly is not 😂
Fascinating and extremely enjoyable, thank you. :)
Unbelievable beautiful so much detail in those eggs and so much history
Fantastic documentary! Grateful for the upload!
I’m loving every second of this documentary! Thank you!🥰
I love you...
@@jimr9499 i love me too🥰
@@jimr9499 gay
Wow. What a beautifully-made documentary!
They are simply stunning pieces of art. How wonderful it must have been to, not only make these eggs and other almost equally beautiful objects, but to know that you could make them. I would be happy to have the skill to make such lovely things and then to make them. I would never want to own them. I would grow tired of seeing them and Tom Bombadil in the Lord of the Rings, I'd put them aside and forget them. I would be a most unreliable owner.
Can't help but wonder if any of them were in Karinhall when it was destroyed.
Beautiful informative documentary.❤️
Beautiful documentary❤.Farberge eggs are stunning pieces of art.Now I really want to go to St.Petersberg and a look at his Beautiful collection of Eggs.
In St. Petersburg, there is a magnificent Faberge Museum - it contains some of the best imperial Faberge eggs, including my favorite "Koranational" one!
But be sure to visit the "Armory" in Moscow! There is the largest collection of imperial eggs, including the largest "Kremlin"!
@@user-vm3tg4gu9d Thank for the suggestion
Fantastic documentary! Enjoyed it so much I’ve watched it 4 times now! 😅 thank you so much for this look at one of my favorite treasures!
I think they are the most beautiful things ever created by a human.
Probably with only handtools
I think you’re right.
What about babys lol
Bit of an open door isnt it?
The Taj Mahal tops all of them. No machinery was used to create that magnificent work of art.
Very interesting and informative presentation! Thanks very much for posting and be safe 🙏
Be safe from what?
What the heck...!?
🤦♂
Spectacular documentary. Bravo 🙌 ❤
Amazing artifacts worthy of kings...
Faberge made a array of objects ,not just eggs.
Amazing documentary...thank you
Thank you for stopping by to let us know. 🙏
such an interesting documentary, thanks for sharing it.
Excellent production. 👏🏻
The ability for very few people to make handmade works of art like these in precious metals is what separates us from apes. it takes a lifetime of experience to even attempt one of these.
Excellent documentary 👏👏🍿
Well now I know, they more than likely haven't been eaten, and Cadbury's have no connection with them.
This is a great idea of a series, I’d love to see some of the UFO stuff and his hunt for all the other stuff. So interesting he seems to be one of the most successful to hold all the rare items lol obviously not a good guy but an interesting one
Wonderful historical information. My guess is that the Rothchild family have the missing treasures in their vast collections.
Good guess!!!
Or perhaps the Vatican has them hidden away….
Amazing! Thank you! Great series ... compelling and informative!
One word!!!! Excellent 👌🇬🇧
I have a Faberge bird in my back yard ..I'm hoping it will lay soon.
😂
You need two birds.
@@GrimReaper-ly8zk only if you want more birds!! Hens will lay unfirtilized eggs without a rooster present!! Fun fact.
@@GrimReaper-ly8zk I'm just looking for eggs ..not chickens ...LOL
😂😂😂@@planestrainsdogsncars4336
Wonderful
Truly an amazing documentary!
The Peasants are Starving!
Royalty: "Have they no bread???"
No.
Royalty: "Let them Eat Faberge Eggs.
So beautiful jewelry egg.. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Great
Anyone mad enough melt these beautiful objects down should receive a life sentence in a dark dungeon..
I have an old bottle of Brut.......by Faberge!!
When I first heard of these eggs, I thought they were made by the same company that made the aftershave.
I wish I had one of those lost eggs.
Yep. That would be cool. And very valuable.
@@FreeDocumentaryHistory great documentary BTW 👏 👍
@@claudesmoot1880 your last name! Not a common name. My grandpa was a Smoot from Oklahoma
The clock egg was discovered as 'scrap metal' in USA... it was purchased for $9K ..
Faberge's eggs - forerunners of today's Kinder Surprises?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol.
Good one!!
Ahhh, the Hammer family. What a lovely bunch...
😂
What happened to the pendant and the crown?
1) England was the main sponsor and organizer of the Revolution in Russia! It was in London that Lenin and his accomplices lived for many years!
2) Weapons and money for the revolution were supplied, as well as led by the leaders, George William Buchanan - the British ambassador to Russia
3) British intelligence officers, diplomats and businessmen were engaged in plundering the treasures of the Romanovs!
4) The English king and parliament refused to save the Romanovs, citing the fact that this would damage the monarchy!
5) England became the main beneficiary of the Russian Revolution, which removed a competitor to Europe, and minted coins for the Soviets and earned money by buying up the treasures of the Russian Empire.
Drivel.
@@peterpluim7912 This is not nonsense, but facts!
Facts you don't like.
But regardless of your attitude, England is responsible for all cases and intrigues against Russia!
Oh goodness! You forgot to put an exclamation mark at the end of your last paragraph! Never mind! Have one of mine!!
@@peterpluim7912 it's absolutely true, England, along with America (obviously), financed and supplied weapons, to the tune of 20 million pounds, for the revolution. We have been lied to about almost everything in our history, perhaps a little independent research, yer know, pick up a book instead of watching Eastenders wouldn't go amiss.
The Rothchilds had a major hand in the downfall of Russia, Amshall Rothchild vowed he would get revenge after being thrown out, the Tsar at the time wouldn't allow Amshall to set up a bank there and so set in motion Rothchild's ire.
Good afternoon everyone
Good night to you! It’s just after midnight here
That's not true, they had rifles, that's a movie made myth 19:00
Moreover: the Russian army won the greatest victories and helped France - thousands of soldiers and officers were transferred from the Eastern Front to help the French!
The Soviets sold the victory of Russia in WWI to England ((
They have the dowager empress dressed up in a ridiculous costume. That sort of outfit was worn at costume balls. The dowager empress would have worn a normal late Victorian or an Edwardian dress to meet with faberge. No crazy headdress. They even show photos of the dowager empress, her sister alexandra, and the empress Alexandra all dressed as normal people right in the video
I thought that was funny as well lol
It's just a re-enactment. Just to give am idea. You know, dramatic re-enactment?
I swear my grandparents had a couple Frabrege eggs. I need to find out what happened to them
Definitely worth looking into!
The Franklin mint sells them
Probably souvenirs as opposed to real imperial Faberge eggs.
LOL!!
This was very interesting from the history of the Russian revolution standpoint but what I really wanted to know is where did the American guy find the egg. They never said.what a disappointment.
He found it at a yard sale in Texas
@@maxsportsman2416 thank you.i guess I must of triped and mist it. What luck eh.
@@maxsportsman2416 Nope. It was supposed to be in an antique mart in the Midwest. A yard sale in Texas would NOT sell something for $14K! That had to be a shop that would take that kind of credit card or money.
@@mylesgarcia4625 thanks
I just saw a documentary on Netflix I think, about the US soldier who came back from ww2 with stuff who lived in Texas I think. At the end of the video his daughter I think was asked about an "item" and it's whereabouts, and she replied that if said item turned up anywhere, that it was donated to a Goodwill in a box with costume jewelry. There was also another documentary I saw of the 2 male officers and 1 female officer during ww2 who looted the one castle in Germany and one of the males sold a fabrege egg for $500 somewhere in Europe back then that was never recovered...
I thought reenactment of raiders lost ark documentary (Harrison ford)
03:44 "...how had it all gone so horribly wrong..."
by a combination of blind greed, wilful neglect and aristocratic arrogance...
that is how most revolutions are brought about,
all you have to do is take away the aristocratic part and substitute in
the rich elites (who are very little different),
and you have the ground work set for the next one
Somewhat ironic that a Russian oligarch bought several of them...
Faberge is still alive and talking live in this documentary....
Far-out that is a pretty egg.
The missing eggs are probably in ny
Two of them are said to be in NY. The empire nephrite is said to be in a private NY collection and the angel with cherub was last sold by Armand Hammer in New York at Lord and Taylor back in the 1940’s.
Why was that soldier yelling at Faberge? It’s not like he shot his friend, he’s just a jeweler.
That is just a dramatized vignette. Doesn't mean it actually happened.
@@mylesgarcia4625
That doesn’t mean I can’t criticize the writing for the lack of coherent reasoning.
@@henrylivingstone2800 Yeah, but you're giving undue attention to a fictional moment that probably happened in another way. If you want to believe that the Titanic didn't sink or things like that, then more power to you. Duh.
DIONISE THERON
I'm off to Frances Valentine!
RIP to the thousands of dead miners who gave their lives so rich people could have something to brag about.
Well said.
No wonder why socialist love to kill all rich
If they were untalented and silly enough to work in a mine, not a great loss anyway.
Give me a break with your nonsense.
you really should feel sorry for these poor aristocrats they go through hell
Russia would be so rich now if they would of kept the tsar
History does not know the subjunctive mood ...
But you should know that the organizers of the Russian Revolution were in England! And the British ambassador to Russia led the protests. And the main beneficiary of the Revolution is England, which removed the main competitor in Europe and plundered Russia, while minting coins for the Soviets and selling equipment ...
Learn to spell basic English.
So the eggs were , truly a representation of the child that was created especially with care … isn’t that the correct layman’s term!
Isn't it odd how Armand Hammer was so cozy with the Communists?
He was a businessman, pure and simple. He was at the right place at the right time -- and he acted as a conduit between the Bolsheviks and the West. What's so bad or immoral about that? It was pure business. Doesn't mean he di an Edward Snowden and betrayed the west or his capitalistic values.
@@mylesgarcia4625 You obviously don't know much about the Cold War or history. Go read about Armand Hammer and the Cold War and maybe you'll understand about Armand Hammer.
@@RICKRATT1 Phooey. I've read Hammer's autobiography so I know what I speak of. Have you? Obviously, you haven't.
Raiders of the Lost ark. I've heard that name before but where
Art. Not Ark.
@@FreeDocumentaryHistory oh snap!
@@brendan5065 Illiteracy is a terrible thing.
@@philipwebb960 or and get this, I just didn't get the play on words. Stop judging
@@brendan5065 Indiana Jones, raiders of the lost ark.
So sad that such wonderful creativity is always reduced to currency. The artists in this world are
slaves to the salesmen and bankers of our culture. It's so tragic.
so artists should not be paid?
That is not what she said. I think what she referred to was the fact that beauty such as those of the imperial eggs tend to be broken down to financial worth rather than the creativity and beauty being appreciated by most people. She did not say that artists should not be paid. Most commercial artists have to make what trends and customers dictate rather than live out their true passions. I think that was what she was referring to
@@eugeneviljoen8513 This did not stop Leonardo, Micellangelo, Raphael and Carravaggio, who worked for the richest and most influential people of their time, to create their masterpieces!
You drop me to you dreamt me horse
I only know of it from James Bond
I thought it was called Indiana Jones
I know where the Mauve Egg is.
Nicholas greatest issue was his silly wife she lead him to his own doom and hers and their family sad. Who knows how it could been if he had become a democratic King.
The Danish Egg is likely in the Danish Royal collection lost in their archives.
Easter egg hunt.
Why is it that all of the people persecuted by thugs are innocent??
There was such a huge divide between the classes. There were the rich, and the destitute. There was no way out for the "lower" classes. They were being ground down into paste, with no relief. Sort of like today.
Yet our poor get food stamps, welfare, healthcare, subsidized housing, free schooling, even an obama phone.
Social Darwinism.
@@dave8599 Exactly. There weren't any poor Russians that weighed over 250 pounds back then.
The peasants built themselves stone houses, the workers lived in their own apartments and received a salary in gold! The country was building and developing rapidly - that's why London sponsored the revolutionaries, and the British ambassador to Russia led the protests and sponsored the revolutionaries!
You are wrong in stating that Nicholas II was given exile in England. That is not true.
@@tbradley2014 you’re right He was not granted asylum. The Romanovs could have left at a certain stage during those tumultuous time but they chose to stay.
Russia doesn't deserve to have any of the eggs.
Why is this show so far left?
Problem with the image position on your screen, probably.
Why did Mikhael Perkhin best workmaster of Fabergé 💍died so young ? ⚰ ☠ 🤔😒
Who else came to know about Carl Faberge from the James Bond film Octopussy
We learned not from superhero films, but from books))
Yes indeed. "Property of a Lady".
And Bond was able to swipe the real egg at a auction for a fake.
Sadly real the egg was destroyed by Kamal Khan.
Err, I just remembered the egg was destroyed by General Orlav who thought it was a fake. Khan was perturbed when a listening device was found planted in it.
Apparently the Zar would fertilise the eggs himself before they were presented to the Zarina.
Not allowed in america cause toys in them hahaha
Well to somebody that's rich and has plenty to eat I guess them eggs will be worth a lot of money but to the rest of the world 90% you can't eat it ain't worth nothing nothing very soon the other 10% realize what that leg is really worth why you're starving to death
Wouldn't it be awesome to find one! They all belong in Russia!
This ISN'T a documentary.....it is a cheap, stylized recreation of something that may have happened. Horrible format and deceptive production. As a historian, this has no value and is pathetic.
Can you explain why?
Dude what are you talking about this video is informative and there’s no other one on UA-cam to compare
Who you😊
I would call some of his work , the very first egg timer ⏲️ 🍳 😂❤
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