🖼 Fabergé Museum (Shuvalov Palace)

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A mansion on the Fontanka with restored halls displaying Easter eggs, jewellery and silver.

The museum is built on Malcolm Forbes's collection: in 2004 Viktor Vekselberg bought it as a single lot just before the auction.
The museum opened on 19 November 2013 and became Russia's first private museum of national scale.
The palace restoration took seven years and cost roughly 1.2 billion rubles, with no state money.
The collection has over 4,000 items, including works by Fabergé's rivals Sazikov, Ovchinnikov and Khlebnikov.
In 1928 the building, then the House of the Press, hosted the famous OBERIU evening “Three Left Hours”.
During the First World War the palace's last owner, Countess Betsy Shuvalova, set up a field hospital here.

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