A jewel-studded Easter gift for the mother of Russia's last emperor has sold for a record 22.9 million pounds ($30.3 million) in London.
The Winter Egg, which was commissioned by Emperor Nicholas II in 1913 as a gift for his mother, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, is described as one of the most lavish of Faberge's imperial creations.
It is finely carved in rock crystal an
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