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The history of Russian jewelry starts with Peter I who organized all the state owned antique jewelry into a fund called the State Diamond Fund, in 1719. Peter I, also known as Peter the Great, reigned over Russia between 1682-1725. He decreed that the state owned Russian jewelry, which went back to the days of the Byzantine kingdom, was to be protected and expanded by each emperor and empress. Peter the Great secured all the antique jewelry, belonging to the period between the fifteenth till the seventeenth century, in a strong room located in St Petersburg, in his Winter Palace.
Following Peter’s reign, despite upheavals, substantial jewelry was added to the growing collection of Russian jewelry by Peter’s daughter Elizabeth I, her nephew Peter III, his wife Catherine III and her son Paul I.
During World War I the Russian jewelry had been hidden in the underground vaults of Kremlin. After the World War, around 1926, the antique jewelry was extricated from the Kremlin vaults, duly catalogued and photographed. Almost the entire collection of Russian jewelry was sold in 1927 at the famous Christie’s in London to an American consortium of buyers.
However, it was the left over pieces, which had not been sold, that were actually priceless in antiquity and significance. These pieces were remarkable specimen going back to the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries besides the crown jewels from various coronations. Today, the Russian jewelry, as the world knows it, is inside the vaults of the Kremlin open to public viewing.
The bulk of the Russian jewelry, which had been sold off to the American consortium, is now being sold as works of art and fine jewelry. It is not uncommon to find Faberge pieces in gold and turquoise from Louis XV period on sale on the web. You can also find ruby and pearl earrings and pendants with seed pearl, emerald drop and diamond besides cigar cutters in gold! You can also buy brooches, deco ruby necklaces, cufflinks, diamond cluster rings and bracelets in 18 k gold, ruby and diamond from the 1940s.
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