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There are too many and too precious things in front, and Yang Jing looks numb in everything he looks at. But when he opened the last small wooden box, the contents immediately attracted his attention.

Compared with the boxes containing sculptures and oil paintings, this box is much smaller, about the same size as the boxes containing jewelry and gems. When Yang Jing opened it, the length of the boxes was about ten to fifteen centimeters. The "eggs" with centimeters, colorful colors and different images immediately lifted Yang Jing's interest.

"Damn, aren't these all the legendary Russian eggs?" Even though he has recognized the identities of these "eggs", Yang Jing still can't believe that there are as many as sixteen in front of him. Russian easter eggs.

The Russian egg, also called Easter egg, is made by the famous Russian jewelry master Peter Karl Faberge and is unique in the world. Therefore, this kind of egg is also called the "Faberge egg" to commemorate this outstanding Master of jewellery.

All over the world, eggs are loved and worshipped by many peoples, but painting eggs is a traditional custom unique to the Slavic peoples, and the Russians are the peoples that have kept this artistic custom to this day.

Russians portray their love, dreams and longings on the easter egg, which is the condensate of the Russian soul and art. For Russians, easter eggs can bring health, beauty, strength and wealth.

Because the egg is related to the traditional Russian religious customs, it is a must-have for some religious holidays, especially an important celebration tool for the believers at Easter. People treat easter eggs like holy images and protectors and keep them in their homes. The Russians also greet new little lives with easter eggs.

Regardless of Russia's location in the extreme north of Europe, Russian jewelry has a long history and a high status in the jewelry industry. In the early days of Easter in 1885, the Russian Tsar Alexander III, in order to comfort the Queen Mary, who was married from Denmark, specially ordered an exquisite egg from the Royal Jewelry Design Company Faberge Crafts, and gave it to the Queen as Easter. gift.

So Fabergé began to study how to make this egg, preparing to impress Queen Maria.

Under such circumstances, the world's first Easter egg was born.

This colored egg egg looks plain and unremarkable on the outside, but what is unexpected is that there is an egg made of gold in the outer shell of the white enamel. Inside the egg is a small golden hen with a golden hen belly. There is also a mini crown set with diamonds and a miniature egg made with rubies.

The layers of "organs" hidden in this little Easter egg brought the Queen an incomparable surprise, and Maria loved Faberge's gift. Alexander III immediately ordered Faberge to design a unique Easter egg as a tribute every year in the future, and it must make the queen happy.

So, since that year, Fabergé has designed and produced one or two Easter eggs for the Russian royal family every year. It took 33 years from Alexander III to the resignation of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II. time.

During this period, Befage produced a total of 61 easter eggs, of which 52 are still alive. Among them, 54 Tsar's eggs were made for the Russian royal family, and 47 are still in the world.

At the beginning, the value of these Faberge eggs was not recognized by the world. When the earliest Faberge eggs were auctioned, the value of one was only less than five hundred dollars. But with the passage of time, Faberge eggs are more and more recognized, and their value is also rolling upwards.

By 2015, any Faberge egg will start at tens of millions of dollars as long as it is put out for auction. The most conservative estimate now is that the value of a Fabergé egg is as high as 33 million U.S. dollars!

And sixteen Fabergé eggs suddenly appeared in front of me, which is worth more than 500 million US dollars!

Putting money and money aside, the key is that this kind of Faberge egg is too rare. There are only 52 left in the world, and they are not seen on the market.

It's just that Yang Jing suddenly felt that something was wrong, it was something wrong in quantity.

Fabergé produced a total of 61 Fabergé eggs, which is a globally recognized number, of which 54 were exclusively for the Russian royal family, and the other seven were specifically for the Russian mining giant Alexander Krch. Custom-made by Berger Art Production Factory. These seven easter eggs are also called "croat eggs".

But the problem is that the only 52 Faberge eggs in the world are all well-known. Why are there 16 eggs here? Even if the nine missing eggs are included in the sixteen eggs, the total number is still seven more eggs!

Are these eggs not made by Faberge himself?

However, Yang Jing thought about it and found it impossible. How could the eggs that were picked out by Nicholas II and placed in a wooden box preciously preserved were not the eggs made by Faberge himself?

And Yang Jing knows that the reason why Faberge eggs are so precious is that the shape and style of each Faberge egg is Each is different, but the style of 12 eggs is a complete set at a glance!

Don't ask how Yang Jing can see that the styles of these 12 eggs are one set, he can see it! It is estimated that it can be seen by another individual, especially the Huaxia people.

Because of these 12 eggs with different shapes and colors, each egg is carved with a very magical animal shape, starting from the mouse, to the old cow, tiger, bunny, and the legendary Chinese dragon.. .... All the way to the little pig that looks naive.

This is clearly a set of Easter eggs designed and produced with the theme of the Chinese Zodiac!

However, in historical records, Faberge has never designed and produced this kind of easter eggs with the Chinese zodiac as a blueprint. So what about these easter eggs?

Even if Yang Jing's IQ was as high as 147, he couldn't understand this kind of problem that had been in dust for a century. Since you don't understand, don't waste your brain cells thinking about it. In those turbulent times, anything can happen, so just use the holy ring!

After identification, these sixteen easter eggs were all made by Faberge. It is impossible to make mistakes in the identification of the holy ring. Yang Jing has always believed in this.

A total of nine Faberge eggs were missing. The nine missing eggs are all from the collection of the Russian royal family, such as the Tsar Sapphire Pendant Eggs made in 1886, and the Little Angels Cart Eggs made in 1888. The necessary eggs in 1889 and the commemorative eggs made by Alexander III in 1909 are all in the lost ranks, and they are not seen in modern times.

However, the four Faberge eggs lost by the Russian royal family are now all present among the sixteen eggs.

As for the remaining twelve easter eggs, as Yang Jing guessed, they were also made by Faberge, and they were secretly made by Faberge for Nicholas II in five years.

The twelve eggs were made by Fabergé from the beginning of 1900 to October 1904, which took five years in total. In terms of time, Yang Jing believes that these twelve eggs should have been specially prepared by Fabergé to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Nicholas II's accession to the throne.

Nicholas II was an ambitious guy. Everyone knew that when he was in power, he had a great interest in China in the Far East, especially the Northeast where China was coveted. As a czar determined to unify the Far East, Nicholas II has been very interested in Chinese culture since he became a king. In his opinion, if he wants to rule the Far East, as a czar, he must understand that area. People’s culture and living habits.

Perhaps it is for this reason that Fabergé came up with such a way to please Nicholas II.

The Chinese zodiac signs are very famous cultural customs in China, and the animals in the zodiac signs are very cute. Using the zodiac signs as the blueprint to make a set of colored eggs, as a gift for the tenth anniversary of Nicholas II's accession to the throne, so great, His Majesty I will love it. Especially at this time when the Russo-Japanese War is in full swing, using such a set of Easter eggs as gifts also indicates that Russia will win the difficult war.

This is probably what Fabergé thought at the time.

Although Yang Jing didn't know why Fabergé made such a set of easter eggs, he couldn't have guessed it too much!

Anyway, there is no record of this set of zodiac eggs in history~www.readwn.com~ Maybe it was Nicholas II who liked this set of eggs so much that he kept it privately, or maybe it was caused by other reasons. The set of easter eggs has not been known to outsiders.

As if there was no news about the eggs made by Fabergé in 1904 and 1905, according to Fabergé’s habit, he would present two Easter eggs to the Russian royal family every year, but the four eggs in those two years were unreliable. There was no sound, and later generations didn't even know the names and appearances of the four eggs offered in those two years.

Similarly, this set of eggs dedicated to Nicholas II in 1904 has no historical record for unknown reasons.

However, whether it is recorded or not, this is not important to Yang Jing now. The important thing is that these sixteen Faberge eggs are now completely his, especially since there is a set of extremely precious Chinese zodiac eggs.

After wrapping the last bite of the box silently with consciousness, Yang Jing let out a long breath.

After stretching a lot, Yang Jing walked out of the cabin contentedly.

These two months have not been in vain, and the treasure of the last tsar alone is enough to be worth the journey!