#coronation egg

Decided to do a study to challenge my use of my new pen nib. It’s a Fabrege Egg. I’ve been reading this book from the library on the story behind each Fabrege egg--this one was the coronation egg for the Romonavs. You can look up the Khodynka Tragedy if you feel like going down a wiki wormhole about how well that went.

007 – the Roger Moore years 6: Octopussy

This is a weird one, and not just because of this movie’s name. I first saw this movie as a teenager, when I was first discovering Bond. That same summer, one of the few channels we got on our antenna TV was having a Bond movie marathon, and this is one of the Bond movies we saw during that marathon. It was the second Roger Moore Bond movie I ever saw in full, and back then, I really enjoyed it.

The Imperial Coronation Egg by Fabergé 1897 ♔ The World's Most Expensive Easter Egg

The Coronation Egg by Carl Farberge.

This was given by Tsar Nicolas II to his wife Tsarina Alexander at the Easter of 1897. The miniature carriage was held inside of the egg.

The carriage is a work of art all its own. It is an exact miniature of the original carriage, which carried Alexander to the coronation the year earlier. It has working suspension and comes complete with stairs, which drop down from the carriage just like its larger brother.