"I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling."
- Tsar Nicholas II
(1,000 points) In the exquisite tradition of FABERGÉ artistry, these lovely jewels of the garden come to life like never before. Each a treasure to prize always. A hummingbird seems to fl oat in an exquisite openwork design. Each expertly crafted in hand-painted Tesori® porcelain, a blend of powdered porcelain and resins. Then gloriously accented with 24 karat gold and adorned with a genuine Austrian crystal. A Limited Edition from The Franklin Mint. Each of these magnificent hummingbird miniature eggs is being issued in a hand-numbered Limited Edition that will be closed forever after just 95 casting days. Order each separately. Now in stock!
Approximately 5 1/4" (13.3 cm) in height
Release Date: 2007
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Historical Account: "The Romanovs" - The House of Romanov or Romanese was the second and last imperial dynasty of Russia, which ruled the country for five generations from 1613 to 1761. From 1761 to 1917, Russia was ruled by a line of the House of Oldenburg descended from the marriage of a Romanov grand duchess to the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp. This line was officially also called Romanov, although genealogists sometimes style it, more accurately, Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov.
The Romanovs share their origin with two dozen other Russian noble families. Their earliest common ancestor is one Andrei Kobyla, attested as a boyar in the service of Semyon I of Moscow. Later generations assigned to Kobyla the most illustrious pedigrees. |
At first it was claimed that he came to Moscow from Prussia in 1341, where his father had been a famous rebel. In the late 17th century, a fictional line of his descent from Julius Caesar was published.
It's likely that Kobyla's origins were less spectacular. Not only is Kobyla Russian for mare, but his relatives were also nicknamed after horses and other house animals, thus suggesting descent from one of the royal equerries. One of Kobyla's sons, Fyodor, a boyar in the boyar duma of Dmitri Donskoi, was nicknamed Koshka (cat). His descendants took the surname Koshkin, then changed it to Zakharin, which family later split into two branches: Zakharin-Yakovlev and Zakharin-Yuriev. During the reign of Ivan the Terrible, the former family became known as Yakovlev (Alexander Herzen being the most illustrious of them), whereas grandchildren of Roman Zakharin-Yuriev changed their name to Romanov.
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