The fascinating world of Fabergé, jewelers of the last tsars, on arte.fr

This is a gem of a documentary.

by Jean-Pierre Cottet and Mikhail Ovchinnikov, available on arte.tv, tells a wonderful story in both senses of the term. It begins in Wonderland, of sleighs clinking in the snow and wild fur coats, in the land of pinched-waisted tsars in military uniform and tsarinas dressed in white and covered in finery. It ends on July 17, 1918 at the Ipatiev house in Yekaterinburg with the massacre of the imperial family on the orders of Lenin. The imperial eggs, these masterpieces of jewelry which continue to surprise with their virtuosity and their fantasy, punctuate this ascent to heaven and this descent to hell, so much does the Fabergé house marry by its genius for the precious object , unthinkable and playful, the hours of glory of this court like no other.

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