PETER CARL FABERGE. LEGASY OF A
FALLEN DYNASTY
CALEB BAILEY
Timeline of major events
1842 |
Gustav Faberge opens shop in St. Petersburg
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1846 |
May 30: Peter Carl Faberge (or Carl Gustavovich) is
born
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1872 |
Carl Faberge begins to manage the family firm
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1881 |
Assassination of Alexander II and coronation of Alexander
III
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1885 |
First Imperial egg made. Faberge is appointed as court
jeweler
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1894 |
Alexander III dies and Nicholas II marries Alix von
Hesse
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1896 |
May 26: Coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra
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1902 |
First public display of the Imperial Eggs, organized
by Alexandra
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1905 |
January 22: Bloody Sunday Massacre
Russia adopts a constitutional monarchy system of government.
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1914 |
World War I begins
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1917 |
Bolshevik revolution
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1918 |
Bolshevik close the House of Faberge
The royal family are assassinated
Faberge and his family escape Russia |
1920 |
September: Peter Carl Faberge dies in Lusanne, Switzerland
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Works Cited
- Bainbridge, Henry Charles. Peter Carl Faberge: Goldsmith and Jeweller
to the Russian Imperial Court. London: Spring Books, 1949.
- Ckyrlov V., and Cmorodinova G. Faberge and Russian imperial jewelers.
Moscow: Terra, 1992.
- McCanless, Christel Ludewig. Faberge and His Works: An annotated
Bibliography of the First Century of His Art. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow
Press, Inc., 1994.
- Nemirovskaya, Yulia. Inside the Russian Soul: a Historical Survey
of Russian Cultural Patterns. Boston: McGraw-Hill Primis Custom Publishing,
2001.
- Peter
Carl Faberge. Chaucer Technology School.
- Treasures
of the World: Faberge Eggs: mementoes of a doomed dynasty. PBS.
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