Fabergé egg

Around 1800, the craftsman Pierre Favry (later Peter Fabrier) settled in Pärnu in Livonia (now Estonia).

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In 1814, Gustave Fabrier was born there. By 1825 the family name had become Fabergé. In the 1830s, Gustav Fabergé moved to Saint Petersburg to train as a goldsmith in the workshop of Andreas Ferdinand Spiegel, who specialized in making gold boxes.

He continued his education at the famous Keibel company - a company of goldsmiths and jewelers of the tsars.