Back in 1719, when Russian Czar Peter the Great opened what is considered to be the first public museum, he displayed all sorts of natural and human rarities: exotic butterflies, skeletons and living specimens such as Foma the Lobster Boy.

NPR: Hidden Museum Treasures

Russian Czar Alexander III commissioned craftsman Peter Carl Faberg?? in 1885 to craft an egg as an Easter gift for his wife, Empress Maria Fedorovna.

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