Thursday, March 5, 2015

good talk

This past Tuesday, I went to the Bellagio to see "Faberge Revealed," the largest collection of Faberge outside of Russia.  The 238 artworks were made by the House of Faberge, the appointed Jewelers to the Russian Court, during their ascendancy of 1872 to 1915 under Carl Peter Faberge, and I tried to memorize them all.  Amongst them were 10 Faberge Eggs, of the 54 created from 1885 to 1915 for Czar Alexander 111 and Czar Nicholas 11, 42 still exist.  Some of the 10 are the best-known, the Pelican Egg, the Czaravich Egg, the Peter the Great Egg, the Red Cross Egg (Czarina Alexandra was the Head of the Russian Red Cross during WW 1).  Faberge wished to emulate the exquisite intricacies of the Scythians and succeeded.  You should try to develop healthy interests.

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