Imperial Easter egg 'Renaissance' from the collection of the Faberge Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. This was the last Faberge egg given by AlexanderIII to his wife, Empress Maria Feodorovna, in 1894.
Meanwhile, a scholar discovered that the 'Resurrection' egg, that depicts the resurrection of Jesus from the grave, fit exactly inside a Renaissance egg, revealing that it must have been a surprise inside the Renaissance egg.
In 1917, the Russian Provisional Government confiscated these eggs, and they were later sold to the United States.
In 1965 it was purchased by Malcolm Forbes, and in 2004, Russian oligarch Viktor Beckelberg purchased it for his private collection, In addition to nine eggs from Forbes, which were worth a whopping $100 million.
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