This uniquely minimal Fabergé Imperial Easter egg is inscribed in beautiful, elongated Russian, saying, “Greater Love hath no man than this, to lay down his life for his friends.” When Tzar Nicholas II presented this egg to his mother, Maria Feodorovna in 1915, she was serving her 21st year as the head of the Russian branch of the International Red Cross. This egg’s signature surprise is a folding screen of five oval miniature portraits of women from the House of Romanov, each wearing the uniform of the Red Cross.
