I loved having the experience of learning the history and significance of the Russian Fabergé Eggs. I remember my first time seeing the beautiful eggs about a year ago at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. I was surprised that Tsar Nicholas II only had to pay around 9,760 rubies ($130,542). I expected that an egg this rich and complex would cost almost 1 million dollars. Learning about Lillian Thomas Pratt’s purchase of the eggs was very interesting, and answered the question I always wondered about the eggs: “If the eggs are significant to Russian history and culture, why are they in Virginia?"
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