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auctions. Having learned that the Bolsheviks brought “buckets” of diamonds, they decided to bring down the price and refused to buy the stones. A trade representative telegraphed Lenin that the experts deliberately overstated the price, and it was impossible to sell the stones. Faberge was arrested again on charges of sabotage. After some time, the authorities learned about his connections with the staff of the Finnish diplomatic mission and decided to make him their agent. He came out of prison only after he had given his agreement to work for the
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at his dacha. Everything that could not be taken away was disfigured and broken. He spent more than a year in a concentration camp, where he was considered as a "bourgeois counter-revolutionary" and was taken out to be shot three times. Age 44, he had become old and gray-haired; his house, villa and
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In June 1918, Faberge reopened the antique shop. But later, the terror unleashed by the Bolsheviks forced him to smuggle his wife and five children to Finland. In December 1918, the Bolsheviks closed all the antique shops. Faberge found a job as a translator in the Danish embassy. Six months later,
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in Paris in 1900, the Faberge Company became a supplier to numerous monarchs. Agafon Fabergé spoke five languages and was a company representative at the royal houses of England, Sweden, Norway, and Siam. In 1897, Fabergé married Lydia Treyberg, daughter of a wealthy Riga merchant. Following the
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In the late 1920’s, the officials involved Faberge in an urgent secret work — evaluation of a large lot of diamonds. After signing the peace with Estonia, the Bolsheviks found a channel for smuggling gold and precious stones. The interested traders came to Revel to participate in clandestine
275:. But Faberge did not want to have it on his conscience, so he confessed everything to his Finnish friends. For a while he tried to get some work. Academician A.E. Fersman helped him; he invited him to work in the commission to study production forces of Russia at the Academy of Sciences. 201:, at the same time as Eugene (Evgeny). In the 1900s to 1910s, together with his father and his brother, Eugene, he managed the firm's business. After 1898, he became an expert on the Diamond Room in the 154: 141: 262:
according to the new denunciation, he was arrested by security officers, this time on charges of profiteering and sent to a concentration camp. Shortly after his arrest, there was a
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of 1917 against the tsar, the antique trade was very busy. Wealthy people leaving Russia sold rarities. There was no shortage of the buyers — the nouveau riche millionaires. The
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in St. Petersburg and at the Commercial Department of Dr. Wiedemann's gymnasium. On 20 October 1894 (O.S.), he joined his father's firm, the
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Breytfuss Friedrich (1850–1911), a Russian-German stamp collector from St. Petersburg, stimulated Fabergé's interest in collecting stamps.
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5 February] 1876 – 20 October 1951) was a Russian goldsmith and philatelist. He was the second son of
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birth of the couple's fourth son in 1907, his father presented Agafon a country estate (known as
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In 1916, Faberge retired from his father’s company and opened up an antique shop. After the
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made Faberge close the shop. There began lootings and robberies.
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on 20 October 1951. He was buried in the family grave at the
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Agathon Karlovich was born in 1876; he was educated at the
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Emigrants from the German Empire to the Russian Empire
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