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The Faberge Museum | 21, Fontanka River Embankment | St. Petersburg | Russia. The museum is located in the Shuvalov Palace on the Fontanka River in downtown St. Petersburg. The Shuvalov Palace is one of the most beautiful palaces of St. Petersburg, and once belonged to famous noble families such as the Vorontsovs, Naryshkins, and Shuvalovs. The palace interiors were completely restored to their historical appearance by the Link of Times Foundation. Today the Shuvalov Palace is a work of singular architectural and restoration art. The painstakingly restored building features a spectacular marble staircase, an upper floor including offices, a large ballroom, as well as the main exhibition area divided into 12 spacious galleries with an area of 4,700 sq. meters of exhibition space. These now contain 130 showcases brimming with over 3,000 18th, 19th and early 20th century objects of vertu, porcelain and silver, including approximately 1,500 works of art by Fabergé, not to mention Russian works of art by other competing masters. The rooms, lavishly decorated and furnished with luxurious textiles, are hung with select, mostly Russian, paintings. The basis of the museum’s collection is the world’s largest collection of works by Carl Fabergé, including nine famous imperial Easter eggs that are of great value not only as the objects made with the most masterly jewelry skills, but also as unique historical artifacts. The museum collection also includes

decorative and applied art created by Russian masters of the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. x,x,x