Why Fabergé eggs are eggs
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- There's a reason and they called her DAGMAR.
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^ Book review. Good book for such a poppy subject. Tough for me to judge the sources though, because of language issues. The whole thing made me kinda sad. But it served as a good refresher course on the Tsar drama of 1850-1917. I suppose it was definitely more historical than technical or artistic in nature.
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My favorite fabrege egg would be the trans siberian railway egg, inside it has a mini locomotive made of platinum and gold that you can wind up. I would imagine Alexei having a lot of fun with the train.
Some of the real Eggs had clockwork, too? I really should look up more about these.
Check out the memory of Azov egg from 1891. That’s a real beautiful piece, with an excellently recreated ship of the same name as the surprise piece.
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The surprise in the diamond trellis egg was a wind up elephant.
The surprise in the swan egg is a wind up swan.
The surprise in the peacock egg is a wind up peacock.
You’d be surprised how skilled these craftsman were, there’s some really cool stuff inside the eggs.
@@henrylivingstone2971 Yeah, always wondered how those craftsmen were able to make such a small wind up train with. Azov egg is definetly the best from these replies
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I love the memory of Azov egg, one of the best in my opinion. The bloodstone and the gold rocaille scroll work is amazing.
But I also like the revolving miniatures, the lilies of the valley, the peacock egg, the trans Siberian, the yacht egg, the winter egg, and the constellation egg.
I think it's because they are yummy
some of the interiors are lost to this day (probably chocolate)
Basically it's the classic version of Kinder Egg 🤔
I wonder if people in 1900 talked about the irony of the US allowing Maxim guns but outlawing Fabergé eggs. 🤔😁
Now I’m just imagining the parchment paper instructions with gold leaf, bold colours and knights fighting snails 😅
And yet nobody has combined the fabulousness of these golden eggs with the deliciousness of Kinder chocolate and created Kinder-Fabergé
yes
Classics…with diamonds and gold
I knew about the eggs as imperial Easter gifts, but I didn't know about the bomb history! What I find interesting is that there are so few of these produced - and even less still on display or in private collections around the world. The myth of missing Faberge eggs! How there are some that we have only seen in photos. Very interesting topic - thanks!
I was pretty blown away so many were at the VMFA. Very eclectic locations they ended up at!
@@PhilEdwardsInc your telling mre
My dad used to live in an apartment thet was full of them in the USSR. They where all distroyed by cats
@@bestaqua23 Which country did he live in and which year?
Do you think your father or the apartment owner was recreating Faberge Eggs for a particular purpose?
As Museums purchase fake ones, as the 50 or so genuine ones that survived made by Carl Faberge, are just that rare/uncommon.
And so even when a museums have a Saint Petersburg / Eastern Art exhibition, they use recreations to display.
Or what purpose would there be so many, in one location? To sell to gift shops, jewelry stores or something?
@@notsoberoveranalyzer8264 I'm from Russia original and they where not recreations . There where a lower tear gifts the royal family gave there person stuff . My dad use to rent an apartment from a women who was the daughter of one such stuff . This was the early 80 so no one was selling anything . They where just an inherent this women got .
Dagmar is a beautiful danish name 😭 you're just butchering it!
I'm a kindergartenteacher in Denmark and my Dagmars can absolutely be princesses if they want that!
Dak'Mar... Sounds like an alien or demon
I completely agree 😂 but then again - the Danish language is not an easy thing to get around without a potato in your mouth!
@@tobiasmosegaardholm9817 the solution is right there! Put a whole potato in your mouth! How do you think I and the rest of us get that (what's the opposite of crisp) pronunciation?
Can you approximate the correct pronunciation for us?
@@kinyutaka Davmar?
There's no hard sounds in the name. It's not Dackmarh
Faberge eggs, which, I confess, I first learned about from that episode of the Simpsons, first fascinated me once I discovered what they very quickly became; and that is: they are examples of the absolute best of what humanity is able to fabricate once expense is eliminated as a consideration. At the same time, the craft is still bounded by some simple rules: it must be vaguely egg-shaped and egg-sized. And this serves to inspire creativity instead of stifling it. Very few other product realms share these traits; luxury mechanical wristwatches come to mind.
I am a hobbyist fabricator. I like to have the ability to create any physical object that a person can imagine. To me, being tasked to make something on the level of a faberge egg would be a dream of a commission. "Don't worry about the cost, just show off your skils and make something that marvels the world."
I understand the reaction this inevitably has; that this is a perfect example of oppulence and even waste when juxtaposed with an impoverished and even starving populous, but I do not think that reduces the marvel of the artistry involved in their construction.
Technically not all the eggs are “egg shaped or egg sized” unless ostrich eggs count.
Some of the eggs are quite large like the trans Siberian egg or the danish royal which were quite large.
Or the Kremlin egg which despite having an egg on the top done is composed of turrets towers and crenellations walls. And is the tallest of the eggs.
Some of the eggs don’t even look like eggs like the Bay tree egg also known as the orange tree egg which is composed of Jadeite leaves in a circular shape. Or the constellation egg which is more circular than it is egg shaped.
At the same time as being insulting to the starving populous, it bears little relevance to them: the problem of starvation was fixed with nitrogen fertilizers; throwing more money at the problem would do little to improve it. But i think at the same time the upper classes were buying vast quantities of food to show off a spread then throwing most of it away, pricing the lower classes out of the market.
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme I blacksmith, I leathercraft, I woodwork, I'm a machinist, I sew, I do moldmaking, pattern-making resin-casting, metal-casting, airbrushing, prosthetic makeup effects, shoemaking, auto-body work, the list goes on. It's easier to refer to myself as "fabricator", there's nothing pretentious about that. None of those skills require the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars needed to afford the precious metals and gems involved in making something at the level of quality of a Faberge egg. If someone was foolish enough to commission me for such an endeavor, I'd be happy to take a stab at it. Otherwise, I have a perfectly long project queue already.
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme you just sound like you're mad that you're not a fabricator lmao. Learn how to work with your hands instead of typing jealous natured spiteful comments.
I couldnt agree more. The context of them being pompous gifts from one royalty to another is a bummer tbh but that doesnt take anything away from their undeniable beauty. It is truly breathtaking.
Eggs are an amazingly huge symbol of Easter, and Easter is huge in Russian culture. I feel like that's an important part of the story.
for sure
@@PhilEdwardsInc along with Andriy's comment I add:
At the time, in Russia, it was mostly Catholic and the Egg symbol was part of the "Rebirth" of Christ/Celebration of the Rising of Christ. So along with bringing happy memories to his wife, he was gifting her a token of Jesus too. Multi layers there for them. My mother used to be into the Egg's as was my grandmother. Which, for them, went along with verdatum's comment: "that this is a perfect example of opulence and even waste when juxtaposed with an impoverished and even starving populous, but I do not think that reduces the marvel of the artistry involved in their construction."
When you lose all artistry and human artistic creation, you can dehumanise yourself. Even when starving and under conditions of atrocity.
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One of the surprises in the eggs are a direct reference to the resurrection of Christ.
The prize in the Renaissance egg is what was once known as the resurrection egg. Encrusted in pearls and enamel and enclosed in an egg shaped dome of rock crystal the prize was a diorama of the risen Jesus.
@@VesnaVK thank you. lol, I thought I was wrong there, so I appreciate that.
Russia back then in 19th century was very and I mean very religious so it probably felt like Easter all year long )
I'll have you know that Dagmar is a perfectly good danish princess name
For what it's worth, Dagmar is actually pronounced more like Dawmar.
Not in Germany!
@@haileybalmer9722 we're not in Deutschland and neither were the Princess during any part of the story. Changing proper names in translation is often insulting and mostly wrong
No it’s not? It’s more pronounced da-guttural g-mar. So da-ch-mar almost?
Dau-mar or Dawmar is not a bad sounding name - Dach-mar is - and while Queen Dagmar was German before she married a Dane (Valdemar II), her descendant princess Dagmar was born a Dane.
The last Fabrige egg made was intended as a gift for the Russian Royal family, but never delivered, as they were somewhat indisposed in a basement at the time.
That was a lovely story beautifully told by you. You should find a way to revisit it around Easter time next year.
Maybe a short then.
It’s kinda endearing that the ultimate goal was to reaffirm the image of Danish eggs as things of joy for Princess Dagmar
I thought faberge was a material or brand name (like Prada) and that Faberge eggs were still being made and were just really delicate.
Honestly surprised I never looked further into it since I usually enjoy researching things, but I'm glad I stumbled on this video. Cleared up my ignorance and made the items a lot more interesting.
Faberge is the name of the company
I'll be damned. It's someone's name. I thought it was a literal French or Latin word
Dagmar is a much softer name in Danish. Pronounced more like Daumah
Dahmer?
@@notoriousgoblin83 Dahmer sounds more like the German pronunciation of Dagmar, the Da part like Dahmer than a soft g , the next a like the a from Dahmer again ,with a soft r at the end
@@notoriousgoblin83 not really no
You can't make a Faberge omelet without breaking Faberge eggs.
Lovely backstory to a troubled past. You find the most interesting book choices. Never thought a TH-camr would be my go-to for reading inspiration, but here we are. Keep 'em coming please.
I always wanted those Faberge eggs when you complete an egg hunt on their official egg hunt event they used to have. I was happy to get one on the last egg hunt they ever had.
It's not too far fetched to see a connection to kinder eggs? Which, btw, are kind of fascinating! My niece gets them on occasion and the quality of the little toy inside is always remarkable. Especially compared to other similaly sized toys that are almost always made in China, these little treasures are German made and extremely detailed, often with tiny moving parts. Almost like little plastic automata. And yes, it's my job to assemble them but I thoroughly enjoy it!
apparently kinder eggs are part of their own whole Italian tradition!
Good overview of Faberge! Parts I think you could have included: Missing eggs, fake Faberge eggs and the story of one of the missing eggs being found by a scrap metal guy in the US.
crazy!
I actually know a Dagmar. I had no idea she had a princess namesake!
Did you use ai generated images like for example the bunny and the one portrait of karl faberge?
Guilty!
@@PhilEdwardsInc haha I guess I have a good eagle eye for the ai style. Unless there other images in the video generated then I'm fooled 😂
@@cartertoro3902 Also my background when I'm talking about the Faberge Egg.
And that egg!
@@PhilEdwardsInc ohh I see it now. Totally missed it first view
seeing as your answering some really interesting yet random questions. I have one for you that popped into my head earlier today. why is it that flat earthers believe that the world is a circle and not IDK a square?
I just tried looking for this - it is a bit of a mystery, isn't it.
I follow flat earth and their debunkers on TH-cam as kind of a guilty pleasure. Every shape you can think of, flat earthers have considered it. There's hollow earth, donut earth, but you're right. I've never heard an explanation as to why they think it's a circle and not a square or triangle.
@@xliquidflames hmmm thanks for the info. never knew that the hollow earth theory and Flat earthers overlapped.
Got to see the eggs just this past weekend at the same Fine Arts Museum in Richmond. Was beautiful to see in person.
and I've loved your content for many years. Great job in story telling, editing. People don't understand the time involved. Kudos!
I come from the same perspective as you, imagining hollow gestures, having too much money and no way to spend it, etc. But that's honestly a very heartfelt origin.
I liked the video, don't get me wrong, but: the americanized self-absortion in criticizing the princess' name is just incredible.
i'll do better in the future!
What a pleasant surprise to see the VMFA pop up in a video! I grew up around RVA and took art classes there as a teenager. I've moved away and in all the art videos I've watched, the VMFA has never popped up. It's a small but charming museum. I totally forgot about their Faberge eggs. I remember thinking it was so weird they had them.
it is weird! they have sooo many
I've always loved visiting the eggs there, you can feel the love between the family in that room, and it's always stuck out to me as an odd but touching display.
VMFA also has divine equine art!!!
Hearing the story of the Eggs really puts into context this one movie from Japan. It's called Detective Conan: Last Wizard of the Century.
In the story, a Febrege Egg, titled Memories, is uncovered, which leads the detectives to a castle built in Japan by the last surviving member of the Russian Royal Family. The egg is described as two eggs in one, with a clockwork figure of Czar Nicholas looking at a photo album with his children, and when set in a pedestal under the castle, it projected photographs of the family onto the walls.
Learning that all the eggs were similarly special to their recipients in real life is heartwarming.
wow this sounds crazy but kinda cool
@@PhilEdwardsInc It's a great movie.
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That’s a really weird plot. Why would the Romanovs or the Russians for any matter build a castle in Japan?
If anything animosity between the Japanese empire and the Russian empire were extremely high considering they had fought a major war that resulted in a Russian defeat. Also the fact that Nicholas was almost murdered whilst on tour in Japan.
So it’s unlikely that the Romanovs would’ve seemed refuge in Japan after the revolution especially when they had family in England and Denmark.
Though their invitation to the UK was rescinded following anti monarchy protests.
@@henrylivingstone2971 it is a movie made by the Japanese, so take that what you will.
The descendant character is the great granddaughter of "Maria Kousaka", who is revealed to be "Maria Romanov".
Her husband, Kiichi Kousaka, was a craftsman in the Fabergé company, and he built the castle to resemble German architecture as a way of honoring Maria's mother, Empress Alexandra.
Naturally, this is an alternate history, based on the long rumors that at least one of the Royal Family survived.
It is a great story, nothing more.
@@henrylivingstone2971 and the antagonist of the movie is a serial killer who likes to shoot people's right eye. Not going to spoil but this method of killing is an act of revenge to what happened to the killer's ancestor, who also played a great part in Romanov history and the Russian Revolution.
Did the nihilists send weird Easter eggs because they knew Dagmar liked eggs and wanted to be subversive? Why did they choose eggs to do weird stuff with?
I think it probably had to do with messing with it as a religious symbol more than anything specific to the Tsar and Tsarina (speaking out of my depth though).
Faberge eggs were born from the concept of “easter eggs”, since the Romanov dynasty were deeply orthodox in their faith. And easter is a major climax of the experience of eastern christianity.
Unlimited diamonds from the imperial mines of Siberia + orthodox religion = faberge eggs
The people who have blown up the tsar weren't calling themselves nihilists, they were called narodovoltsi (people's will movement) or narodniki (people's movement). Nihilists are a much wider term, but it was more like a trendy oppositional philosophy than a revolutionary movement
I really need to go to bed. but im glad I now know why these damn eggs were so expensive in octopussy.
"Things got crazy" understatement of the century. If you want to be shocked look into the history of that war. Absolutely brutal.
NEWSFLASH
War is brutal
I know it is just a macguffin and the popular go to is marcellus wallace's soul. But i always thought that a Fabergé egg would do nicely as the thing in the Pulp Fiction briefcase.
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Russian accent spot on 😂 but seriously very interesting, I didn’t know the background nor the Russian and Danish connection- I think I assumed it was British or French
I only found out of the eggs because roblox made them for there egghunts which you would get at the end at every egghunt
Dagmar of Denmark, aka Maria Feodorovna, aka Minnie, was first betrothed to the Tsarevich Nikolai but he became sick and died at just 21, but not before he had begged on his deathbed for his fiancée and his younger brother, Alexander, the new Tsarevich, to marry instead. But though he was her second choice, their marriage grew into a devoted and loving one. Empress Maria Feodorovna survived the Revolution that would culminate in the shocking massacre her son, Tsar Nicolas, his wife, and their children, her grandchildren.
Somewhat strikingly coincidentally, the English Royal House was affected by a similar marital reshuffling a generation later: Price Eddy, the son of Bertie, Price of Wales and Dagmar’s sister Alexandra, was first betrothed to May of Teck. But when Prince Eddy died of influenza, his brother George stepped into his place in line as future king and also went ahead and took on his fiancée, May, as well. They would become King George V and Queen Mary.
In modern terms it would be like if Prince William had died during his engagement to Kate Middleton, and Prince Harry just married her instead. Seems absurd now but was duty then!
seems rough! like a very very very small bumble pool of options.
Was anyone else thinking about Queen Dagmar from Disenchantment and how she killed her first husband Yog then married his brother Zog?
Can I be honest, I actually wouldn’t mind other faberge objects. However, Eggs are a perfect shape for them.
Interesting video! The first Faberge eggs I saw were in the Forbes Gallery in Greenwich Village, now closed. I wonder what became of the eggs that were there, or for that matter what became of the entire collection. Maybe a video on what happens to the collections of museums that close?
I wonder if they're in a forbes house somewhere (or storage facility).
@@PhilEdwardsInc
The Forbes collection of imperial Faberge eggs was purchased by the Russian Oligarch Viktor Vekselberg after the death of Malcolm Forbes, it is estimated he paid over 150 million dollars for the nine imperial eggs and the 180 other faberge items in the Forbes collection. The eggs are now in the Faberge museum in Moscow.
And interestingly enough, in early 2022 Vekselberg had loaned three eggs to a faberge exhibition at the Victoria and Albert museum in London when the war in Ukraine broke out.
After countries around the world started to freeze Russian assets, Veskelberg’s faberge eggs loaned to the exhibition were confiscated. Namely the first Easter egg, the coronation egg, and the Gatchina palace egg.
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It’s a tragedy because after Malcolm Forbes died, his sons sold off his entire collection of art and antiquities.
Wine owned by Thomas Jefferson, Napoleon Bonaparte’s desk, and the opera glasses used by Abraham Lincoln the night he died were all sold.
At least when Malcolm was alive he had exhibited all his art in a free public gallery.
They family decided they could not keep the collection becuase the estate taxes that the government was imposing on them was astronomical. Yes, they were wealthy, but the taxes that they would have had to pay for the collection, was apparently out of control. They put the collection up for auction, and a Russian billionaire bought everything and brought the collection back with him to Russia. He said they are going back to Russia where they belong. Many people were angry at that statement becuase the Russian Revolutionaries closed down Faberge's workshop, and the man's life was destroyed. So, it's hypocritical becuase people have said, you didn't want to have anything to do with them, and now you want them, and you claim they belong in Russia? really? please! Also. Carl Faberge had to flee to Switzerland along with his family. He died a year later, maybe this killed the man becuase he worked very hard in his business. I think it was his life. The man was an artist, a genius, and he had an incredible imagination, which is very evident becuase his art is a feast for the eye. The quality of the objects that were crafted in the house of Faberge was and is, mindboggling extraordinary. There is no way we will ever see anything close like that ever again. The skills and craftsmanship are long gone.
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Uh….that thing about estate taxes is not true. The Forbes family kept the faberge eggs for over 14 years after Malcolm died so if they needed to pay taxes they would’ve had to do it at least close to the time he died.
It was always the plan for the Forbes family to eventually sell the eggs and the rest of his collection. Malcolm said in his book, More Than I Dreamed: A Lifetime of Collecting, ‘I’ve often told my children I hope that, if they decide to be done with one of the collections, they will put it back on the auction block so that other people can have the same vast fun and excitement that we did in amassing it.’
I had read once, Mr.Fab was forced to make those eggs every year.....the first was a gift but because it was so beautiful he was required to make more. When the Rominovs were all killed, he escaped to the US but never found fame and died poor. Anyone know different?
Cool and very interesting. Or as someone already put it: Eggcellent content as always =)
Yess my favourite series why "thing" is "thing"-shaped
Always looking for more!
Dagmar is a badass name, yur crazy
Only reason I know of these are because of SpongeBob video game lmao
well they wouldn't be called faberge eggs if they weren't eggs
I actually like that, to give her something good with eggs to not poison her entire memory of them
Ooo Dagmar from Disenchantment was based on a real person haha
We all know royals are hatched from eggs of alien chicken overlords, I mean cmon it's middle school level of knowledge.
yeah felt that was too basic to include in the video. needed stuff people don't already kniw
Love this channel Phil, great stuff. Totally didn't need that Fabergé/Jobs AI-generated nightmare though 😅😅
i also programmed him to haunt your dreams (sry)
One of my favorite moments on the podcast How Did This Get Made was when the guest Jessica St. Clair very confidently said her grandma in south Philly had a bunch of Faberge eggs. I think she meant something like Precious Moments Figurines but I just love the idea of one of these literal gems being in some granny's china cabinet.
Did Marie Antoinette get one with little cakes? LOL
Are you not missing the whole import of eggs within Slavic pagan culture? Eggs play a key role in Easter celebrations once Christianity ensues on these lands - hence giving an egg at Easter goes deeper than a personal gift to remember a childhood toy (though indeed a lovely gesture).
Yeah I definitely wanted to go down a Russian Orthodox rabbit hole for a bit, but ultimately decided the Danish connection was more important for the Fabergè eggs specifically. But totally valid.
Wait is this that vox guy that took johnny harris's job lol? Now hes just doing johnny harris style youtube videos too lol.
i think the narrative may be a bit confused here
“Hey Hey Hey”
Faberge egg song reference
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The 'G' in Dagmar is pronounced like a 'U', making it a much better name for a princess. Her name is pronounched like 'Daumah'.
Have no idea how I slipped on this but shan't again!
Yeah I really miss those sweet monarcs. Btw they could afford fancy eggs cause they literally enslaved their people and killed everybody that didn t like it. Just the cutest
yet their lives also sucked! what a paradox (not disagreeing with your point though)
@@PhilEdwardsInc well oppressing milions of people it s one of those things that tends to come back at you sooner or later. I am also pretty sure that having a lot of power just eats people s brain
Wow your videos are just so much fun. I love the little inserts like the Russian accent, that quickie AI image, the 1800s chaos monster.
very interesting to see the first egg. thanks so much for posting!
This continues to be one of my favorite TH-cam channels.
It's a monument to the greed and wastefulness of autocratic regimes.
They did briefly stop it during the Russo Japanese war (not a defense, just interesting that they weren't completely tone deaf).
Interesting. I came upon this video because I am starting to experiment with enamelling. But the historical aspect is great too. Thanks, well done!
bravo on the enameling! very cool, seems super tricky
"Princess Dagmar" sounds like a joke DND character
Queen Dagmar was the actual character in Matt Groening's Disenchantment.
It has been grossly mispronounced in this video.
@@Miraihi Thanks. I knew I had heard it somewhere.
I didn't know all of the history, but I was surprised when I looked up Faberge eggs. I, like you, assumed they were sort of like Precious Moments figurines: over priced, kind of dumb, and that was the point. Was I looking it up to see how much money Bleeding Gums Murphy was blasting through? Never mind that! I was very surprised to find out that there are very few of them, most of them belonged to the Romanovs, and they're probably more intricate than any work of art I've personally witnessed. The Dutch Egg really draws everything into focus. I always wondered why they were so whimsical. Russians aren't known for their whimsy. The Dutch, though...
They are oddly whimsical for Russia, aren't they? (I say this as somebody who only knows like...Dostoyevsky though.) It does seem like that Danish egg unlocked some creativity!
The eggs are an insight to the intertwining of Slavic and Germanic royal traditions. You could also probably make a long-winded connection (lacking evidence) for the traditional egg-themed gifts alluding to the ancient pre-Christian Germanic goddess of fertility and spring, Ôstara, for which the Easter holiday was named.
never knew that!
I'm really curious about who you got at @3:54 to do that Russian accent.
haha thank you, i knew I wasn't working on my Rocky IV Ivan Drago impression.
Cool introduction to a probably extremely well studied and documented stuff... which nobody read because it seems boring (while it's not!)
Many thanks!
I'm a bit too old, but still have a chance to have a daughter.
I will suggest Dagmar, just to see the mother's reaction!
The most interesting part being how she changes and start considering it...
Once I specify "But honey, you know, like the princess at the origin of Fabergé's egg".
Yeah, I have a peculiar taste for apparently classy (yet totally douchebag) jokes.
I gotta say, "Dude, you are one of the funniest historians I have ever heard!" Have you ever thought about being a history teacher? Most of them I knew had no sense of humor.
F**kin nihilists, dude.
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I’m really speechless and there’s no words can explain how I felt about this.
I’m also impressed that how you summed all this book and it’s talks in a very amazing way🥹❤️.
I literally focused In every second in this video and I replayed some parts too many times until I had a deep understanding, and that because I really liked it and i wanted to understand it verybad and also because I am not very good at English, I really hope you put an Arabic subtitles soon.
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You should look into the history of The Romanovs, Very Interresting. Russian history is huge.🐰💎🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
Loved the Russian accent four minutes in.
thank you for the video
is it so hard to say her name right ?
its not degmar. think of duckmar and then say it.
but in the end both a´s are spoken as aaaaaahhhhs not es eeehhhs.
americans... all the settlers from around world.. still butchering names. how can an A be en ay ? while e is an ihh ? and u is an u bit its an aaahh ?
if the name is like not american. please try to spell it out correctly. DO A RESEARCH ON HOW ITS SPELLED CORRECTLY. please. for the love of Dagmar! not Degmar...
degmar... so funny how you say her name.
It’s a Paschal tradition in Orthodox Christianity going back more than a thousand years. You give painted eggs to your kinsmen, friends, and fellow parishioners. As tradition goes it started with Mary Magdalene giving a gift of a basket of red eggs to the emperor of Rome on Easter (Pascha) Sunday and announcing that Christ is risen from the dead. The egg was an understood symbol of life. The eggs hard shell was like the tomb, and the life growing inside of it and then bursting out was like the Resurrection account.
this was fabulous. thanks, PE. 🥚💝
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What is missing in BBC documents from European monarchy, emperors and aristocrats .... this video almost did it too, I would personally put it half and half, rulers and nation, are not same ( nationality is questionable thing when we talk about historical European rulers) good mention contrast between monarchs and people (nation, there were royals were European institution,) * what diamonds present in christian culture (examl. hindus have other meaning, in ) is supreme power and cap towards nation what they "controlled" same as suppressed, christian culture. Russia has been stared by colonies and imperialistic way of thinking in the name of Jesus, first were priest and then kings.Finland too, same -nation can tell most resent crimes against humanity from European power. Some of them very badly converted speak for their subordinates. Converting makes people loose their minds. Reality here in northern Europe is catastrophic.
* inbreed etc race, blue blood saying refers to ancient thinking about rulers as own kind )
Made to be beautiful and amazing. The idea of saving costs didn't appear to exist. They are made with no worry of cost, for they will sell for top dollar. Amazing art.
Nihilists are big news around that time as two nilhilists were central to plot of The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez of Sherlock Holmes.
In celebrating and complimenting the beauty of the egg’s artistry, it’s ironic that so much computer made AI art was used throughout this video. Disappointing :/
These are pretty interesting, but they don't quite send the same message as the kind you turn upside down and all the feathers fall off. I think they're called "Fapergè Eggs."
Splendid delivery, thanks for the unique way of telling the story. I am a subscriber of yours now.
a princess "given" to her "husband's" brother, then she's given gaudy bullshit. it's all just fucking gross. the craftsmanship that went into the pieces, and the story of the artisans who made the eggs for faberge to sell could've been interesting.
Those are still at the Virginia fine arts museum? Anyway.
Yeah those eggs really are so very impressive. It's impossible for video or pictures to convey how remarkable they are in person. There really is something ... Like you feel the love and the tragedy held in those sentimental gifts. I just can't express how much you are aware of the history when you see them in person.
This is the third video I've watched of yours....is it your goal never to answer the question/prompt posed by your video's title?
Hmmm, disenchantment.
It’s kind of a cute idea putting a hen inside of an egg.
3:56. Can anyone here who might be woke, help me understand why it’s not racist to mimic a Russian accent (never has been), yet it’s somehow racist to mimic an Asian accent (something only relatively recently deemed “racist”). This is a serious question that I haven’t contemplated before.
All I know is it's a loophole I'm willing to keep exploiting.
Many of the actual craftsmen and workmasters who were responsible for the creation of the eggs were Finns. Finland was part of Russia at the time.
Might add... The Faberge workshops had the most skilled craftsmen and some methods of the craft have been lost forever as the shops were shuttered from the Russian revolution and the men were sent to war... sadly.
This was a cool video with lots of neat history. Though I'm still left wondering in what way a Faberge egg is a "real egg." It doesn't seem to use the shell of an egg that came from a hen. It's just a really pretty bejeweled replica of a real egg. So the title is a bit misleading.
Hi pal, I'm really sorry but I think I missed why it became an egg? It's interesting history nonetheless though:)
It’s Pagan, you completely ignore Ester and dying eggs in the blood of sacrificed…never mind.
To be completely honest, the first time i saw one of these was in a game called MAIZE. It isn’t very well remembered, which is sad.
Tzars were psychopaths at their core, so don't be surprised by their depraved sense of beauty, when they give eggs after they've been sent egg bombs. Yes, by the way, the tsars loved to marry by inheritance is the transfer of brides to their brothers, as in the Old Testament.
Dagmar is a cool name
The perspective that changes trough out time is so interesting, how will everything change when no one of our generation is alive anymore to bear the weight of the experiences ? All our experiences will one day become just a story
She wanted me to treat her like a princess...
...so I sold her off into marriage to cement our alliance with the Russian Empire.
I would be more sympathetic and think it’s cute if the people weren’t literally starving.
What would be cool is to show them alongside the original threat eggs ("Christ is Risen" and "We will rise again too no matter how you squelch us.")