Imperial Red Cross Easter Egg
Cleveland Museum of Art

Imperial Red Cross Easter Egg

Peter Carl Fabergé (Russian, 1846–1920) · 1915

gold, silver gilt, enamel, glass, ivory
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

This egg was confiscated by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Revolution and sold by the government of Josef Stalin in the 1930s to raise money for the Soviet treasury.

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