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Russian jewelry has had a checkered history. The history goes back to more than 1000 years. The beauty of Russian jewelry was actually introduced formally during the reign of Peter the Great in 1719. He created what is known as the State Diamond Fund. He decreed that state jewelry was sacrosanct. The Romanov family could add to the Russian jewelry but could not use it for personal gains. Thereafter true to his declaration he and all the imperial heads of the Russian monarchy kept adding to the state jewelry. The pieces were stored by Peter the Great in the Winter Palace of St Petersburg. Thereafter Elizabeth I, her nephew Peter III and his wife Catherine the Great all contributed liberally to the state jewelry that grew progressively. Russian jewelry survived WWI, the revolution of 1917, Russian Civil War and WWII. Despite the loss of a large proportion of the famous jewelry collection the more important pieces still live on and are available for public viewing.
The famous Russian responsible for popularizing Russian jewelry other than Peter the Great was Peter Charles Faberge whose family went on to create the House of Faberge which brought the famous Faberge eggs to the world stage. These eggs of gold and silver encrusted with precious and semi-precious gems were commissioned for the imperial family by Alexander III the then Czar of Imperial Russia. These days you don’t have to visit Russia merely to see its jewelry. Online shops now produce excellent reproductions from the periods of Catherine the Great, the Tsars and from the Faberge House in necklaces, earrings and pendants. You can go through the online catalogue and order a Catherine the Great necklace in sterling silver or antique pendants like the Monomakh cross pendant with pearls in sterling silver dated back to the 13th/14th century. A similar pendant had been used in the coronation ceremony of Peter the Great. There are more antique pendants using the Faberge eggs like the beautiful Imperial Red Star Pendant, the Imperial Blue Green Egg Pendant and the Imperial Argyle Egg Pendant all from the House of Faberge.
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