Peter Carl Faberg6 (1846-1920) stands as a representative of a vanished age: the age of the 2zars

and the fabulously rich imperial court in Russia. It was an age of empires and European rLonarchies

that was brought to an end forever by the Great War (1914-1918). The production of luxury goods

ceased completely in Russia as the war dragged on, ushering in decades of hardship and dramatic

changes in the social system within which the imperial court had flourished. Today, long after the

1917 Bolshevik Revolution, the name Faberg6 conjures images of Russian imperial grandeur. In