Gorbachev Peace (Fabergé egg)

The Gorbachev Peace egg is a Fabergé egg by Fabergé workmaster Victor Mayer. In 1991, Herbert Mohr-Mayer gave the Gorbachev Peace Egg to Mikhail Gorbachev, president of the former Soviet Union. It was given as a tribute to the way in which Gorbachev had succeeded in reducing tensions between East and West. Mikhail Gorbachev donated this Fabergé egg as an Easter present to the Kremlin Museum in Moscow.

Gorbachev Peace Fabergé egg
Recipient	Mikhail_Gorbachev
Design and materials
Workmaster	Victor Mayer
Materials used	gold and enamel
Surprise	a golden dove

The egg is made of 18Kt yellow gold and covered with transparent green vitreous enamel. The upper half of the egg opens up and reveals a golden dove.

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Fabergé Gorbachev Peace Egg

Fabergé eggs
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Other Fabergé eggs	Blue Striped Enamel Clock Duchess of Marlborough also known as Pink Serpent Egg-Stamp Gorbachev Peace Lapis Lazuli Nobel Ice Resurrection Rose Quartz Rothschild Scandinavian also known as Quisling Spring Flowers Twilight Youssoupov
Related	Peter Carl Fabergé House of Fabergé Fabergé Museum (Baden-Baden) Fabergé Museum (Saint Petersburg) Fabergé workmasters August Wilhelm Holmström Michael Perkhin Alma Pihl Henrik Wigström

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