Quietly, she retreated backwards as if facing an empress.

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Russian Czar Alexander III commissioned craftsman Peter Carl Faberg?? in 1885 to craft an egg as an Easter gift for his wife, Empress Maria Fedorovna.

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The air surrounding the sarcophagus, shining with the blue fire of the mosaics, which once contained the embalmed body of the Empress, is a worthy dream of an ardently religious imagination.

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