Product Description
The product's height h=16.5 cm (the original height is 36 cm) "Moscow Kremlin" ("Assumption Cathedral") is a copy of the jewelry egg, one of the fifty — two imperial Easter eggs made by the company of Karl Faberge for the Russian imperial family. The egg was created by order of Nicholas II, who gave it to his wife Alexandra Feodorovna for Easter 1906. At the moment, it is stored in the Armory of the Kremlin. This is one of the few eggs that have never left Russia. The Moscow Kremlin egg is the largest of the Faberge eggs.
The product depicts the Assumption Cathedral, where all the tsars of Russia, including Nicholas II, were married. The decoration of the egg consists of a white opaque enamel covered lower part, topped with a dome with yellow transparent enamel, through which you can see the gilyash, repeating the decor of the dome of the cathedral. The stand represents twice reproduced Spasskaya and Vodovzvodnaya towers of the Kremlin.
The Moscow Kremlin egg is equipped with a music box that starts with a key and then plays Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. Inside the original was mounted a clockwork clock.
The original egg was made in memory of the return to Moscow of the imperial couple Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna in 1903. They did not really like to visit Moscow after the events on the Khodynka field, when during the coronation of Nicholas there was a stampede and many people died. The egg was planned to be presented in 1904, but due to the Russian-Japanese War (1904-1905), the egg was not presented for Easter until 1906. The egg was kept in the lilac drawing room of Alexandra Feodorovna in the Alexander Palace.