(In 1883, the Czar of Russia, Alexander, commissioned Faberge to make a special Easter gift for his wife, the Empress Marie. The first Faberge egg was an egg within an egg. It had an outside shell of platinum and enamelled white which opened to reveal a smaller gold egg inside. The smaller egg, opened to display a golden chicken and a jewelled replica of the Imperial crown.
Me? I make do with a chocolate one.)