Fabergé family today

Peter Carl Faberge was one of the most famous jewellers in history, best known for the magnificent jewelled Easter eggs that he created for the Russian royal family.

He was the eldest son of Gustav Faberge, a Baltic German jeweller of French Huguenot ancestry who moved from Livonia (modern Estonia) to St. Petersburg in and opened the House of Faberge on Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa in the Russian capital.

In , the family moved to Dresden, leaving the business in the hands of a trusted manager while Carl Faberge was groomed to take over the family business. He studied first in Dresden, and then with top goldsmiths in other major European cities, including Josef Friedman in Frankfurt, before returning to St. Petersburg in During the next decade, while the firm was involved with cataloguing and restoring the Hermitage's jewel collection, the House of Faberge cont