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GOLDSMITH'S ART - Faberge' Eggs

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« Reply #30 on: May 24, 2008, 09:32:19 am »

                                       














Gustav Fabergé founded the jewellery firm of Fabergé, in 1842 in the old capital of St Petersburg. After the closure of the business in 1917 Carl Fabergé went overseas and his grandson Theo Fabergé was born in London in 1922.



ANCIENT ROOTS

The Fabergé family is French by origin. Their home had been the village of La Bouteille in the Picardy region of North Eastern France. They were Huguenots in a predominantly Roman Catholic country. In 1685 King Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes and they lost religious freedom and civil liberty.



THE ESCAPE FROM CATHOLIC FRANCE

In the years subsequent to 1685, a quarter of a million French Huguenots fled their country to settle in England, the Netherlands, the fledgling United States and Russia.


The Fabergés went first to Schwedt-an-der-Oder in Eastern Germany. Then, in 1800, to Pernau in the Russian Baltic province of Livonia – today part of Estonia.

During the previous 100 years, the influence of Czar Peter the Great and his cosmopolitan experience had made Russia an attractive country for craftsmen. Catherine the Great’s creation of her Winter Palace in St Petersburg, on the banks of the Neva, absorbed artistic creations from the entire civilised world; and Catherine’s reign had also seen religious tolerance enshrined in Russian law. The language of the Imperial court was French. This fortunate conjuncture results in the arrival of Gustav Fabry, born in 1814, in the Russian capital city of St Petersburg.



ESTABLISHMENT IN RUSSIA

Gustav’s father Peter had been a goldsmith practising his craft in Wurtemburg, under the patronage of Catherine the Great.
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